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Structuring and formating examples for the most common types of references. Featured Types are manual, technical report, thesis, article, in proceedings, book, chapter in a book, collection, and websites.

Article

An article in a scientific journal.

Author, Title, Journal Volume (Year), Number, Pages (without pp. in article references!), Note (e.g. issn).

Sunil Sarin and Irene Greif, Computer-based real-time conferencing systems, (ieee) Computer 18 (1985), no. 10, 33—45, issn 0018-9162.

@article{sg85,
   author="Sunil Sarin and Irene Greif",
   title="Computer-based real-time conferencing systems",
   journal="({\sc ieee}) Computer",
   year=1985,
   volumne=18,
   number=10,
   pages="33-45",
   note="{\sc issn} 0018-9162
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author, title, journal, year
optional: volume, number, pages, month, note

Book

A book with explicit information on the publishing house.

Author or Editor, Title, Publisher, Year, Note (e.g. isbn)].

Cyril M. Harris, Handbook of acoustical measurements and noise control, McGraw-Hill, 1991, isbn 0-07-026868-1.

@book{har91,
   author="Cyril M. Harris",
   title="Handbook of acoustical measurements and noise control",
   publisher="McGraw-Hill",
   year=1991,
   note="{\sc isbn} 0-07-026868-1"
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author or editor, title, publisher, year
optional: volume or number, series, address, edition, month, note

Chapter in a Book

A part of a book without a distinctive title, usually a chapter, a section or a range of pages.

Author or Editor, Title (in italics, small), Chapter, and/or pp. Pages, Publisher, Year.

Ronald M. Baecker and William A.S. Buxton, The audio channel, ch. 9, pp. 393—399, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1987, isbn 0-934613-24-9.

@inbook{bb87,
   author="Ronald M. Baecker and William A.S. Burton",
   title="The audio channel",
   chapter=9,
   pages="393-399",
   publisher="Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.",
   year="1987,
   note="{\sc isbn} 0-934613-24-9"
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author or editor, title, chapter and/or pages, publisher, year
optional: volume or number, series, type, address, edition, month, note

Collection

A part of a book with an extra title.

Author, Title(in italics, small), Booktitle, Publisher, year, pp. Pages.

Isaac Asimov, The dead past, Earth Is Room Enough, Fawcett Crest, 1957, pp. 7—54.

@incollection{asi57,
   author="Isaac Asimov",
   title="The dead Past",
   booktitle="Earth is room Enough",
   publisher="Fawcett Crest",
   year=1957,
   pages="7-54"
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author, title, booktitle, publisher, year
optional: editor, volume or number, series, type, chapter, pages, address, edition, month, note

In Proceedings

An article in a conference proceeding.

Author, Title, Booktitle, Organization, Month Year, pp. Pages.

Alain Martel, The SS-1 sound spatializer: A realtime midi spatializing processor, icmc: Proc. Int. Comp. Music Conf., Computer Music Association, October, 1986, pp. 305—307.

@inproceedings{mar86,
   author="Alain Martel",
   title="The SS-1 sound spatializer: A realtime {\sc midi} spatializing processor",
   booktitle="{\sc icmc} Proc. Int. Comp. Music Conf.",
   year=1986,
   pages="305-307",
   month=oct,
   organization="Music Association"
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author, title, booktitle, year
optional: editor, volume or number, series, pages, address, month, organization, publisher, note
 

Manual

A technical documentation.

Author, Title(in italics, lowercase), Organisation, Address, Year.

Akai, S900 midi digital sampler operator's manual, Akai Professional, P.O. Box 2344; Fort Worth, TX 76113, 1989.

@manual{aka89,
   author="Akai",
   title="S900 midi digital sampler operator's manual",
   organization="Akai Professional",
   address="P.O. Box 2344; Fort Worth, TX 76113",
   year=1989
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: title
optional: author, organization, address, edition, month, year, note

Thesis

Either a Master Thesis (@masterthesis) or a PHD Thesis (@phdthesis). Use the appropriate BibTeX-Entry.

Author, Title (in italics, lowercase), type (generated from the Bibtex-@pdhthesis-type), School, Month, Year.

Michael Cohen, Multidimensional audio windows: Extending user interfaes thorugh the use of spatial auditory information, Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, December, 1990.

@phdthesis{Coh90,
   auhtor="Michael Cohen",
   title="Multidimensional audio windows: Extending user interfaes 
          thorugh the use of spatial auditory information",
   school="Northwestern University",
   month=dec,
   year=1990
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author, title, school, year
optional: type, address, month, note

Technical Report

A report, issued by an university or an other institution, mostly part of a series.

Author, Title(in italics, lowercase), Type, Number, Institution (First letters can be emphasized to refer to an acronym), Month Year.

Richard L. Asmuth, Plan for the second generation of the intelligent network, Special Report sr-npl-000444. Bell Communications Research, July, 1986. 

@techreport{asm86,
   author="Richard L. Asmuth",
   title="Plan for the second generation of the intelligent 
        network",
   type="Special Report",
   number="{\sc sr-npl}-000444",
   institution="{\b Bell} {\b Co}mmunications {\b Re}search",
   month=jul,
   year=1986
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: author, title, institution, year
optional: type, number, address, month, note

Miscellaneous: Websites, Patents

Websites are represented by the BibTeX-Type @misc. This Type is used, if no other type can be applied.

Title, Howpublished (URL), Month Year, note (optional).

iavas, http://www.iavas.de, June 2004, Interactive AudioVisual Application Systems, home of the i3d player.

@misc{iav04,
   title="iavas",
   howpublished="http://www.iavas.de",
   month=jun,
   year=2004,
   note="Interactive AudioVisual Application Systems, home of the id3 Player"
}

BibTex-Attributes:
mandatory: none
optional: author, title, howpublished, month, year, note
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