Posts Tagged ‘reference’

Often times you want to add entries to the references section of a LaTeX document without actualy citing them. The \nocite{reference} may be used to add the record to the references, but writing \nocite for each reference can get tedious. Luckily, adding \nocite{*} to the document will ensure that everything is added to the references.

In BibTeX there is no bibliography record type for website references. Luckily, the Misc bibliography record type has a howpublished attribute, which may be mixed with the \url command to allow website referencing. Below is an example of a document named urlbib which demonstrates this. File: urlbib.tex \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{url} \begin{document} \section*{Testing the URL citations} Line [...]

If you’ve written up a LaTeX document and find that some of the figures, tables, algorithms, etc. are being referenced wrong (such as Figure 2.4 being referenced as figure 6), chances are you’ve put your caption and \label tags in the wrong order. LaTeX needs \label to be after \caption, or for \label to be [...]

Referencing in LaTeX

Posted: 12th December 2009 by Tim in LaTeX
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One of the nice things about LaTeX is that it sorts out reference numbers for you. This is done through the use of the \label, \ref and \pageref commands. This allows us to add, remove or re-arrange elements without worrying about where they are referenced in the rest of the document The \label is a [...]