Examples of Tib Database Entries





Adapted from Tib, a TeX bibliographic processor (c) 1989 by James C. Alexander.

Journal Article

A journal article must have a journal name (%J) and a volume number (%V). It usually also has one or more authors (%A), a title (%T), page numbers (%P), and a date of publication (%D), and sometimes an issue number (%N). It may have a publisher (%I) or be a translation. In the this case, certain lower case fields are used. It should have a URL for an electronic version of the article. Two examples: 

%A Tammo tom~Dieck
%T Bordism of $G$-manifolds and integrality theorems
%J |TOPOL|
%P 345-358
%V 9
%D 1970
%K dieck
%U http://too.old.tobeonline.org/bordism.pdf

%A V. I. Arnol'd
%T Singularities of smooth mappings
%J |USPMN1|
%V 23
%P 3-44
%D 1968
%K arnold
%j |RUSMS|
%v 23
%d 1968
%p 1-43

Note the use of journal codes to effect automatic standard abbreviation.

Memoir

The AMS memoirs are cited like journals, except that both the volume number and the number of the memoir are needed. Use %V to specify the volume number and %N to specify the memoir number: 

%A Peter B. Shalen
%A W. Jaco
%T Seifert fibered spaces in 3-manifolds
%J Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc.
%V 21
%N 220
%D 1979
%P viii $+$ 192 pp

Conference Presentation

A conference presentation can be either an unpublished report or an article in a proceedings which has no editor and is identified by the conference. In this case the name of the conference is put in the journal field (%J). There is no volume (%V) field. There are likely also one or more authors (%A), a title (%T), a date (%D) and a city (%C), and in a proceedings, pages (%P). 

%A F. J. Lerch
%A S. M. Klosko
%T Gravity model improvement using laser data
%J First Crustal Dynamics Working Group Meeting
%C Goddard Space Flight Center
%D |SEP|, 1981

Technical Report

A technical report has a report number or identifier (%R). It probably also has one or more authors (%A), a title (%T), a date (%D), and an issuing institution (%I) (which may alternatively be part of the report identifier), and possibly a city (%C), a government issue number (%G) and perhaps pages (%P). 
%A F. J. Lerch
%A S. M. Klosko
%A G. B. Patel
%T A refined gravity model from LAGEOS\/ \egroup(GEM-L2)\bgroup
%I |NASA|
%R Tech.\ Memo.\ TM 84986
%D |FEB|, 1983

Book

A book has a publisher (%I) but no journal name (%J) or report number (%R). Usually it also has one or more authors (%A), a title (%T), a date (%D) and a city of publication (%C). It may also belong to a series, in which case it has a series name (%S), and probably a series volume (%V) or number (%N). It may also have a government number (%G). Note the use of the %F field. In these examples, the city of publication (%C) included as part of the definition of the abbreviated %I field. In the first example there is no author (%A) or editor (%E); the issuer (%I) is used in place of the author for citation making and sorting. 
%T Software Engineering Automated Tools Index
%I |SRA|
%F SRA
%D 1982

%A R. E. Griswold
%A J. F. Poage
%A I. P. Polonsky
%T The SNOBOL4 Programming Language
%o (second edition)
%I |PrHall|
%D 1971

Article in Book

An article in a book has two titles, the title of the article (%T) and the title of the book (%B). It probably has one or more authors (%A), and the book probably has one or more editors (%E). It also probably has page numbers (%P). As well, the fields for a book are present. 
%A C. A. R. Hoare
%T Procedures and parameters:\ An axiomatic approach
%B Symposium on Semantics of Algorithmic Languages
%E E. Engeler
%P 102-116
%S |LNMath|
%V 188
%D 1971

Compilation

A compilation is the work of several authors gathered together by one or more editors (%E). Thus there are no authors (%A). Other than that, it is treated as a book. 
%E Heinz-Otto Peitgen
%E Hans-Otto Walther
%T Functional Differential Equations and Approximation of Fixed Points
%D 1979
%S |LNMath|
%V 730

Dissertation or Thesis

Many manuals of style say to treat a PhD dissertation as a book, with the institution granting the degree as the issuer. However most journals format dissertation and thesis listings as technical reports. 
%A Martin Brooks
%T Automatic Generation of Test Data for Recursive Programs Having
Simple Errors
%R PhD Thesis
%I Stanford |UNIV|
%D 1980

Preprint

A preprint is also best handled as a technical report with "preprint" in the %R field. Sometimes a preprint has a report number which can be used. The number of pages can be put in the %O field. 
%A Hypo T. Hetical
%T Hypothesis and Conclusion
%R preprint
%O 14 pages

Accepted Paper

If the paper has been accepted, but has not appeared, the %O field should be used as in the following example: 
%A Hypo T. Hetical
%T Hypothesis and Conclusion
%J |INVEM|
%O to appear