citation in latex presentation

MSU Libraries

• Need help? Ask Us
• Writing in LaTeX

Introduction to BibTeX

Creating a bibtex file, adding a bibtex library to your document, using the biblatex package to cite, changing citation styles.

• Creating Accessible LaTeX Documents
• Additional Help
• LaTeX Templates

Using Citation Managers with LaTex

Although some people manage their citations in BibTex, a citation manager can still be extremely helpful for organizing and keeping track of your citations. Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote all allow you to export citations to BibTex.

For help with choosing a citation manager see:

• Comparing Citation Managers

For instructions on how to export to BibTex from a citation manager see:

• University of British Columbia's LaTeX Guide This guide to LaTeX includes instructions on how to export BibTeX files from Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote.

LaTex allows you to manage citations within your document through the use of a separate bibtex file ( filename.bib ). Bibtex files follow a standard syntax that allow you to easily reference the citations included in that file through the use of a bibliography management package. There are multiple bibliography management packages that you can use to manage citations. This guide will demonstrate how to use biblatex which allows for the most customization.

Example BibTeX file:

@article{grimberg,    author = {Grimberg, Bruna Irene and Hand, Brian},    title = {Cognitive Pathways: Analysis of students' written texts for science understanding},    journal = {International Journal of Science Education},    volume = {31},    number = {4},    pages = {503-521},    ISSN = {0950-0693},    DOI = {10.1080/09500690701704805},    url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690701704805 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09500690701704805?needAccess=true},    year = {2009},    type = {Journal Article} }

You can always create BibTeX files manually. However, many databases and citation managers allow you to export bibtex files that can then be uploaded into your LaTeX environment.

• Digital Measure's guide to exporting BibTeX files

To add a bibtex file to your LaTex document, you can either create a new file in your Overleaf environment or upload a .bib file to the environment.

To start using the biblatex package to cite, we first need to add the package and establish the BibTex file we are using in the preamble of the document.

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, citestyle=authoryear]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{references.bib}

To create in text citation within your document, we can use the cite command ( \cite{citationkey} ) and include the citation key in the argument. The citation key can be found by looking up the first word included in the relevant citation within the BibTex file. These can always be updated by editing the BibTex file.

You can cite authors in line by using the cite command \cite{grimberg}.

We can then simply print the bibliography at the end of the document.

\printbibliography

Biblatex supports most common citation styles. To change the citation style in your document you have to edit the citestyle command of the biblatex package in the preamble.

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, citestyle=apa ]{biblatex}

You can also update the way the bibliography is sorted by adding a sorting command of the biblatex package.

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, citestyle=authoryear, sorting=nty ]{biblatex}

For more information on editing biblatex citation styles, see:

• Overleaf's Guide to Biblatex Citation Styles
• << Previous: Writing in LaTeX
• Next: Creating Accessible LaTeX Documents >>
• Last Updated: Oct 14, 2022 7:57 PM
• URL: https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/latex

LaTeX-Tutorial.com

Bibliography in latex with bibtex/biblatex, learn how to create a bibliography with bibtex and biblatex in a few simple steps. create references / citations and autogenerate footnotes., creating a .bib file, using bibtex.

• Autogenerate footnotes with BibLaTeX
• BibTeX Format

BibTeX Styles

• New Post! Export Bibliographic Database (BibTeX) Entries from Online Databases

We have looked at many features of LaTeX so far and learned that many things are automated by LaTeX. There are functions to add a table of contents, lists of tables and figures and also several packages that allow us to generate a bibliography. I will describe how to use bibtex and biblatex (both external programs) to create the bibliography. At first we have to create a .bib file, which contains our bibliographic information.

A .bib file will contain the bibliographic information of our document. I will only give a simple example, since there are many tools to generate the entries automatically. I will not explain the structure of the file itself at this point, since i suggest using a bibtex generator (choose one from google). Our example will contain a single book and look like this:

If you don’t want to use a BibTeX generator or a reference management tool like Citavi (which generates BibTeX files automatically for you), you can find more examples of BibTeX formats here.

After creating the bibtex file, we have to tell LaTeX where to find our bibliographic database. For BibTeX this is not much different from printing the table of contents. We just need the commands \bibliography  which tells LaTeX the location of our .bib file and \bibliographystyle which selects one of various bibliographic styles.

By using this code, we will obtain something like this:

I named my .bib file lesson7a1.bib, note that I did not enter the .bib extension. For the style, I’ve choosen the ieeetr style, which is very common for my subject, but there are many more styles available. Which will change the way our references look like. The ieeetr style will mark citations with successive numbers such as [1] in this example. If I choose the style to apalike instead, i will get the following result:

Most editors will let you select, to run bibtex automatically on compilation. In TeXworks (MiKTeX) for example, this should be selected by default.

If you use a different editor, it can be necessary to execute the bibtex command manually. In a command prompt/shell simply run:

It is necessary to execute the pdflatex command, before the bibtex command, to tell bibtex what literature we cited in our paper. Afterwards the .bib file will be translated into the proper output for out references section. The next two steps merge the reference section with our LaTeX document and then assign successive numbers in the last step.

Autogenerate footnotes in \(\LaTeX\) using BibLaTeX

The abilities of BibTeX are limited to basic styles as depicted in the examples shown above. Sometimes it is necessary to cite all literature in footnotes and maintaining all of them by hand can be a frustrating task. At this point BibLaTeX kicks in and does the work for us. The syntax varies a bit from the first document. We now have to include the biblatex package and use the \autocite and \printbibliography  command. It is crucial to move the \bibliography{lesson7a1} statement to the preamble of our document:

The \autocite command generates the footnotes and we can enter a page number in the brackets \autocite[1]{DUMMY:1} will generate a footnote like this:

For BibLaTeX we have to choose the citation style on package inclusion with:

The backend=bibtex  part makes sure to use BibTeX instead of Biber as our backend, since Biber fails to work in some editors like TeXworks. It took me a while to figure out how to generate footnotes automatically, because the sources I found on the internet, didn’t mention this at all.

BibTeX Formats

This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of BibTeX formats, but rather give you an idea of how to cite various sources properly. If you’re interested in an extensive overview of all BibTeX formats, I suggest you to check out the resources on Wikibooks.

Inbook (specific pages)

This is a list of the formats that I have most commonly used. If you think some important format is missing here, please let me know.

Here’s a quick overview of some popular styles to use with BibTeX.

I’m trying to keep this list updated with other commonly used styles. If you’re missing something here, please let me know.

• Generate a bibliography with BibTeX and BibLaTeX
• First define a .bib file using: \bibliography{BIB_FILE_NAME} (do not add .bib)
• For BibTeX put the \bibliography statement in your document , for BibLaTeX in the preamble
• BibTeX  uses the \bibliographystyle command to set the citation style
• BibLaTeX chooses the style as an option like:  \usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=verbose-trad2]{biblatex}
• BibTeX uses the \cite command, while BibLaTeX uses the \autocite command
• The \autocite command takes the page number as an option: \autocite[NUM]{}

Next Lesson: 08 Footnotes

• University of Wisconsin–Madison
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Research Guides
• LaTeX Guide
• Citing with BibTeX

LaTeX Guide : Citing with BibTeX

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• UW-Madison Templates

LaTeX uses the BibTeX (.bib) file format to manage and process lists of references in order to produce in-text citations and formatted bibliographies. It is possible to create a BibTeX file from scratch using a text editor, but many literature databases and most modern citation managers can export directly to this format.

• Bibliography management with BibTeX An introduction to using BibTeX and .bib files for bibliography management, including solutions to common problems. From Overleaf.
• BibTeX Basic introduction to the BibTeX file format and how to use it with LaTeX.
• Choosing a BibTeX style Guide from Reed College on various citation styles and how to use them with BibTeX and LaTeX.

Citation Managers and LaTeX/BibTeX

Jabref is a free reference manager with native BibTeX and BibLaTeX support—it's designed for use with systems like LaTeX and includes cite-while-you-write functionality for LaTeX editors like Kile, LyX, and TeXstudio.

• JabRef Free citation manager with BibTeX support. Made by researchers for researchers.

Zotero is a free, open source citation manager. To create a BibTeX file with Zotero:

• Save all your references into a single collection folder
• Right click that collection in Zotero ( Ctrl + click for Mac OS)
• Choose Export Collection...
• Change the format from RIS to BibTeX

This will create a .bib file for you. Because Zotero is open source, there are a number of third-party plugins you can get to add or improve functionality. Better BibTeX for Zotero is highly recommended if you will be using Zotero for citation management for a LaTeX project.

• Better BibTeX for Zotero A plugin for Zotero that makes it easier for LaTeX users to manage bibliographic data.
• How to link your Overleaf account to Mendeley and Zotero For users with premium subscriptions only.

EndNote is a powerful citation manager, but the full version cannot be used without the purchase of a software license. The paid version of EndNote can produce a BibTeX file for your references, with some limitations. To do this:

• Save all your references into a single EndNote group
• Select the references in EndNote (use Ctrl +A for Windows or Cmd + A for Mac OS to select all)
• From the main menu choose File > Export...
• Choose BibTeX Export as the file output style (this may require installing the BibTeX Export style from the Style Manager)
• Save the file
• EndNote creates a plain text (.txt) file with BibTeX formatting inside; you will need to manually change it to .bib

Note: these instructions were created using EndNote 20. The process may not be exactly the same for other versions of EndNote.

• Can I use Overleaf with EndNote? Instructions for using EndNote to manage references for an Overleaf LaTeX project.

Mendeley is a free citation manager. Follow the directions below to create a BibTeX file containing the references from a Mendeley collection.

• Save all your references into a single folder
• Navigate to that folder in Mendeley Reference Manager
• Choose File > Export All from the main menu
• Choose BibTeX (*.bib) and save your file

Note: the steps may vary depending on the version of Mendeley being used.

• Exporting references from Mendeley Instructions for exporting your Mendeley reference library to a variety of formats. Note that this creates a static file.
• << Previous: Getting Started
• Next: UW-Madison Templates >>
• Last Updated: May 29, 2024 3:50 PM
• URL: https://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/latex

Navigation auf uzh.ch

University Library Zurich

Quicklinks und sprachwechsel, main navigation, how to cite and create reference lists in latex.

LaTeX  is a free and open source document preparation system which is excellent for the preparation of scientific works.

In order to be able to follow this tutorial basic skills in LaTeX are required. In case you are a beginner, we recommend the  Tutorials on Overleaf  or a course by the Central IT services of UZH.

In a Nutshell

LaTeX contains many  packages   which allow for  various functionalities and customizations. die As a consequence there are also various possibilities for generating citations and reference lists in a document.

In order to cite in LaTeX you will need:

• A LaTeX package which allows for the creation of citations and reference lists
• A *.bib file that contains the references in a specific text-only format
• A citation style (if not already included in the package)

LaTeX Packages for Citations

There are two widely used packages for creating references in LaTeX:

• biblatex  is the best option for almost any use case, especially for seminar papers, lab reports and theses. 
• natbib should only be used when writing a manuscript for a journal that explicitly requires its use (e.g. in the  REVTex class ).

biblatex / biber

natbib / bibtex

The*.bib File

Another component when citing in LaTeX is a text file that contains the metadata of all references you want to use in your document. The file has the extension *.bib and is usually stored in the same folder as the corresponding *.tex file.

References in the *.bib file have a certain structure, which is explained in the following figure.

Be aware that biblatex and bibtex are not identical. The exact field structure and available document types in *.bib files is different for the bibtex and biblatex format.

• Download *.bib sample file in biblatex format. (BIB, 441 bytes) .
• Download *.bib sample file in bibtex format. (BIB, 401 bytes) For a quick display of *.bib files you can use e.g. Windows Editor or Mac TextEdit.

Which of the two formats you need depends on the package you are using. For the biblatex package you need the biblatex format, for natbib you need bibtex.

Where do I Get the *.bib File?

We recommend that you use a literature management software to export the desired references as a *.bib file. Depending on the program, it is possible to choose between bibtex and biblatex format for the export, but many only allow the bibtex export. With the free literature management program JabRef you can convert *.bib files from bibtex to biblatex, and vice versa.

Export *.bib Files from a Literature Management Program

How to Use biblatex

The biblatex package is loaded in the preamble of the LaTeX document. Additionally, it is recommended to load the packages inputenc with the parameter utf8, babel with the language of the document, as well as csquotes :

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage{biblatex}

The next step is to specify the path to the .bib file that contains the references for your work, replacing "references.bib" with the name of your file:

\addbibresource{references.bib}

Insert Citations with biblatex

At the point in your document where you want a simple citation of a reference to appear, set the citation command  \cite{Nobody2023} ,  replacing "Nobody2023" with the citekey of the desired reference.

There are many more citation commands in biblatex that you can use to customize your citations almost any way you want. More information can be found in chapter 3.8 of the biblatex user manual and on the  biblatex cheat sheet .

Create a Bibliography with biblatex

At the point in your document where you want the bibliography to appear, set the /printbibliography  command. This only works if you have cited references in the document. There are also many options for customizing the reference lists, which you can find in chapter 3.7 in the biblatex user manual

A minimal working example for citations and reference lists with biblatex is explained in the following figure. You can also  download our example file. (ZIP, 725 bytes)

Careful : This minimal reproducible example is only intended as an explanation of how the biblatex package works. The references generated with it are insufficiently formatted for most applications. In the next steps of the tutorial you will learn how to apply citation styles.

Citation and Bibliography Styles with biblatex

Biblatex offers several built-in styles for formatting citations and references. A compilation of the most popular packages and citation styles is available on the biblatex overview page.

To apply a style, specify it as a parameter (in square brackets) when loading biblatex, e.g. for the Nature citation style:

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=nature]{biblatex} 

Below are some formatting tips for some of the most popular citation styles.

Weiterführende Informationen

Anna Véron , Dr. sc. nat.

[email protected]

• Contact a Liason Librarian

Ask Yale Library

My Library Accounts

Find, Request, and Use

Help and Research Support

Visit and Study

Explore Collections

BibTeX, natbib, biblatex: Managing Citations in LaTeX: Citation Styles in LaTeX

• LaTeX Bibliography Resources
• Bibliography Packages
• Citation Styles in LaTeX
• Zotero and LaTeX
• Troubleshooting
• Workshop Notes

But what about importing from databases?

Some tools, like the Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Inspec, and Google Scholar, make exporting to BibTeX user-friendly. They escape special characters and generate citation keys for you. Other tools are a bit less straightforward. 

In general, the BibTeX export will be located in either an "export" or "cite" menu just above your search results. The cite menu is sometimes activated with an icon that looks like a quotation mark. It can be more effective to use a reference management tool like Zotero to manage your references, so we recommend taking a look at that tab for more information on semi-automated ways to manage your references.

Here are some additional pages with specialized information for you.

• TeXMed - a BibTeX interface for PubMed TeXMed is just an interface to NCBI PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, that allows you to query PubMed and to store references in BibTeX format.
• Documentation on Web of Knowledge/Web of Science for BibTeX Citations Quick summary: Once you've found a citation you want to save, just go to the bottom of the article information page and export using the options in the Output Record box.
• Documentation on Exporting to BibTeX in ProQuest Quick summary: Click the Cite button in the light blue bar above your search results. A box will come up that will walk you through citing the resource(s). Select BibTeX as your citation style, then press the orange "Change" button. Copy the citation to your .bib file. NOTE THAT YOU WILL NEED TO PROVIDE THE IDENTIFIERS FOR EXPORTED CITATIONS.

Other Resources

• Choosing a BibTeX Style Reed College has provided several modified versions of APA, MLA, and Chicago. Click on the name of the style you want to download under the Styles Recommended by Reed section. Place the style in the directory of your paper.
• Online BibTeX Tidy This tool tidies bibtex files by fixing inconsistent whitespace and special characters, removing duplicates, removing unwanted fields, and sorting entries. It has a lot of options in the right-hand column to help you with messy BibTeX files.
• Using EndNote with LaTeX [HTML web log] A quick, easy guide to using .bib files and EndNote at the same time.
• Using Overleaf with RefWorks A quick guide from Overleaf on using RefWorks.

Finding a Citation Style

The LaTeX Bibliography Resources page includes information about LaTeX templates, many of which include a bibliography style and sample bib file to get you started. If you need to locate another style, though, here are some instructions. Please note that templates built for BibTeX + natbib will not always easily translate to ones built for biber/Biblatex if the template is complex.

We start by searching for filetype:bst and the name of whatever we're looking for. In the example search, I'm looking for the style for Geophysical Research . If you are using biber, you can look for a bbx style file with filetype:bbx .

You should see a variety of results that all have that filetype. Use online savviness to avoid clicking on results that might not be safe — we're dealing with code files, after all. Many people will put style files on GitHub or on their academic personal websites. Often, the creator will upload the style file as a text document that you can copy-paste into Overleaf or save into the directory you're working from on your computer.

Please note that many of these styles are generated using command line utilities. Take note of what was used (in this case,  docstrip ) so that you can search for it if you need to debug. Some of the command line-generated style files will cause package conflicts. See the Troubleshooting tab on this guide for a common example.

Once you have pasted in the contents, you're fine to add it to the document preamble.

• << Previous: Bibliography Packages
• Next: Zotero and LaTeX >>
• Last Updated: Jun 30, 2023 9:11 AM
• URL: https://guides.library.yale.edu/bibtex

Site Navigation

P.O. BOX 208240 New Haven, CT 06250-8240 (203) 432-1775

Yale's Libraries

Bass Library

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Classics Library

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Divinity Library

East Asia Library

Gilmore Music Library

Haas Family Arts Library

Lewis Walpole Library

Lillian Goldman Law Library

Marx Science and Social Science Library

Sterling Memorial Library

Yale Center for British Art

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

@YALELIBRARY

Yale Library Instagram

Accessibility       Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion      Giving       Privacy and Data Use      Contact Our Web Team    

© 2022 Yale University Library • All Rights Reserved

• Stack Overflow for Teams Where developers & technologists share private knowledge with coworkers
• Advertising & Talent Reach devs & technologists worldwide about your product, service or employer brand
• OverflowAI GenAI features for Teams
• OverflowAPI Train & fine-tune LLMs
• Labs The future of collective knowledge sharing
• About the company Visit the blog

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most.

Q&A for work

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

Get early access and see previews of new features.

Putting citation text on same slide with LaTeX Beamer

By default, using \cite in the Beamer class of LaTeX places the actual citation information at the end of the presentation on a separate slide containing the bibliography. How does one get the citation information, instead, on the same slide as the citation (the expected, courteous practice for most presentations)?

4 Answers 4

If you use the biblatex package, you can insert a complete bibliographic entry with the \fullcite command.

To have the citation at the bottom of the same slide, we can use \footfullcite instead of \fullcite .

Complete steps would be:

• Include \usepackage{biblatex} and \bibliography{<your_bib_file>} in your preamble.
• Use \footfullcite{paper} in your frame.

• 2 Instead of \bibliography{biblio} you should better use \addbibressource{biblio.bib} if you use the biblatex package –  samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Commented May 3, 2020 at 11:22
• It is \addbibresource{biblio.bib} with a single s in resource. –  optional Commented Jan 23, 2021 at 18:28

I have used the bibentry style for this (part of natbib), which just allows you to write \bibentry{key} which directly expands to the full bibliographic entry.

So here is a minimal (but complete) working example: Assuming .bib file is named as biblio.bib:

• Instead of \bibliography{biblio} you should better use \addbibressource{biblio.bib} if you use the biblatex package –  samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Commented May 3, 2020 at 11:21

Your Answer

Reminder: Answers generated by artificial intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow. Learn more

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest.

Required, but never shown

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our privacy policy .

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged formatting latex beamer citations or ask your own question .

• The Overflow Blog
• The hidden cost of speed
• The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
• Featured on Meta
• Announcing a change to the data-dump process
• Bringing clarity to status tag usage on meta sites
• What does a new user need in a homepage experience on Stack Overflow?
• Feedback requested: How do you use tag hover descriptions for curating and do...
• Staging Ground Reviewer Motivation

Hot Network Questions

• Sylvester primes
• Where is this railroad track as seen in Rocky II during the training montage?
• What is the or some of the surefire ways to safeguard against Rostazas for sleeping/lesser activity if one is unarmed or lightly armed?
• Nausea during high altitude cycling climbs
• Why is notation in logic so different from algebra?
• Stained passport am I screwed
• Why does the church of latter day saints not recognize the obvious sin of the angel Moroni according to the account of Joseph Smith's own words?
• do-release-upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS still no update available
• Why is it spelled "dummy" and not "dumby?"
• How should I tell my manager that he could delay my retirement with a raise?
• Riemannian metric for which arbitary path becomes a geodesic
• Can I counter an opponent's attempt to counter my own spell?
• What's the benefit or drawback of being Small?
• Does the average income in the US drop by $9,500 if you exclude the ten richest Americans?
• Why isn't a confidence level of anything >50% "good enough"?
• How to Interpret Statistically Non-Significant Estimates and Rule Out Large Effects?
• Why would op-amp shoot up to positive rail during power on?
• How can I play MechWarrior 2?
• Hashable and ordered enums to describe states of a process
• How to connect 20 plus external hard drives to a computer?
• Why is the soil in my yard moist?
• Why is LiCl a hypovalent covalent molecule?
• A seven letter *
• Did Babylon 4 actually do anything in the first shadow war?

Citation Styles in LaTeX

Last updated: March 18, 2023

It's finally here:

>> The Road to Membership and Baeldung Pro .

Going into ads, no-ads reading , and bit about how Baeldung works if you're curious :)

1. Introduction

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting language widely used mostly for academic writing purposes. Furthermore, one of the main features of LaTeX is the possibility of automatically generating citations and bibliographies using various citation styles.

In this tutorial, we’ll introduce the different citation styles available in LaTeX. We’ll show how to use them, their potential advantages, and particular disadvantages.

2. Basic Structure of a Citation

Before we dive into the different citation styles, it’s relevant to understand the basic structure of a citation in LaTeX.

Now, a citation consists of two parts:

• Citation Key: the citation key is a unique identifier for the source we’re citing
• Citation Command: the citation command specifies the citation style and its formatting

For example, we can use the command \cite{key}  to insert an in-text citation with the key “key”.

LaTeX provides a wide variety of citation styles to select, as we’ll see in the following sections, allowing authors to choose the one that best fits their needs. The best citation style to use will depend on the specific needs of the publication and the author’s personal preferences.

3. Author-Year Citation Style

The author-year citation style, or Harvard style, is popular in the social sciences. Additionally, this style includes the author’s last name and the year of publication in the citation, e.g. (Smith, 2021).

To use this style in LaTeX, we can use the natbib package and the \citet and \citep commands. We can use the \citet command for in-text citations and the command \citep for parenthetical citations.

Here’s an example:

3.1. Advantages and Disadvantages

Some advantages and disadvantages of the author-year citation style follow.

Advantages:

• Provides clear attribution to the source and author
• Allows for efficient referencing and citation of sources
• Helps to emphasize the author’s contribution to the field
• Easy to read and understand

Disadvantages:

• Limited information about the source is provided in the citation
• Not suitable for certain types of publications that require more detailed referencing

4. Numeric Citation Style

The numeric citation style is commonly used in the natural sciences and engineering. Moreover, this type of style numbers the sources in the order they appear in the text and includes the corresponding number in the citation, e.g., [1].

To utilize this style in LaTeX, we can use the cite package with the \cite command.

4.1. Advantages and Disadvantages

The particular advantages and disadvantages of the numeric citation style are presented next.

• Provides a straightforward and easy-to-read system for citation
• Helps to emphasize the order of the sources cited
• Allows for the inclusion of more sources than other citation styles
• Can be hard to track sources and distinguish between multiple sources only by their number

5. Author-Title Citation Style

The author-title citation style, known as the Vancouver style, is commonly used in the biomedical sciences. In addition, this style includes the author’s last name and the title of the source in the citation, e.g. (Smith, “Some Title”, 2021).

To use this style in LaTeX, we can use the biblatex package and the \autocite command.

5.1. Advantages and Disadvantages

Relevant advantages and disadvantages regarding the author-title citation style follow.

• Provides more detailed information about the source than other citation styles
• Can be used to emphasize the relevance of a source to the reader
• More information provided in the citation can make it harder to read
• May not be suitable for certain types of publications that require a more concise citation style

6. Footnote Citation Style

To employ this style in LaTeX, we can use the footmisc package and the \footnote command.

6.1. Advantages and Disadvantages

Next, we show the most prominent advantages and disadvantages of the footnote citation style.

• Provides additional context and information about the source cited
• Can be used to provide more information about the author or source
• Can be distracting or interrupt the flow of the text
• May not be suitable for certain types of publications, such as those with limited space or character limits

7. Conclusion

In summary, this article provides an overview of the different citation styles available in LaTeX. However, each of these citation styles has its advantages and disadvantages. So, the best citation style to use will depend on our discipline and personal preferences.

Generally, LaTeX’s flexibility and customization options make it easy to switch between citation styles as needed.

We love good questions

Skip to content

LaTeX.org on Twitter - follow us

• Unanswered topics
• Active topics
• Impressum and Privacy Policy
• About LaTeX
• Board index LaTeX's Friends BibTeX, biblatex and biber

LaTeX forum ⇒ BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citing presentations

Citing presentations.

Post by syntaxerror » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:33 pm

Recommended reading 2024:

Post by kaiserkarl13 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:36 am

Return to “BibTeX, biblatex and biber”

•     Text Formatting
•     Graphics, Figures & Tables
•     Math & Science
•     Fonts & Character Sets
•     Page Layout
•     Document Classes
•     General
• LaTeX's Friends
•     BibTeX, biblatex and biber
•     MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms
•     Conversion Tools
•     Viewers for PDF, PS, and DVI
•     XeTeX
•     Others
• LaTeX Distributions
•     Decision Guidance
•     MiKTeX and proTeXt
•     TeX Live and MacTeX
• LaTeX Editors
•     AUCTeX
•     Kile
•     LEd
•     LyX
•     Scientific Word/Workplace
•     Texmaker and TeXstudio
•     TeXnicCenter
•        Announcements
•        General
•        Templates, Wizards & Tools
•        Feature Suggestions
•        Development
•     TeXShop
•     TeXworks
•     WinEdt
•     WinShell
• LaTeX Templates
•     Articles, Essays, and Journal Templates
•     Theses, Books, Title pages
•     Letters
•     Presentations and Posters
•     Curricula Vitae / Résumés
•     Assignments, Laboratory books and reports
•     Calendars and Miscellaneous
• LaTeX Community
•     Announcements
•     Community talk
•     Comments & Wishes
•     New Members
• LaTeX Books
•     LaTeX Beginner's Guide

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests

• Recommended reading 2024: LaTeXguide.org  •  LaTeX-Cookbook.net  •  TikZ.org
• News and Articles
• Unread posts
• Other LaTeX forums
• TeXwelt (deutsch)
• goLaTeX (deutsch)
• TeXnique (français)
• Board index
• All times are UTC+02:00
• Delete all board cookies
• Text Formatting
• Graphics, Figures & Tables
• Math & Science
• Fonts & Character Sets
• Page Layout
• Document Classes
• BibTeX, biblatex and biber
• MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms
• Conversion Tools
• Viewers for PDF, PS, and DVI
• Decision Guidance
• MiKTeX and proTeXt
• TeX Live and MacTeX
• Scientific Word/Workplace
• Texmaker and TeXstudio
• Announcements
• Templates, Wizards & Tools
• Feature Suggestions
• Development
• Articles, Essays, and Journal Templates
• Theses, Books, Title pages
• Presentations and Posters
• Curricula Vitae / Résumés
• Assignments, Laboratory books and reports
• Calendars and Miscellaneous
• Community talk
• Comments & Wishes
• New Members
• LaTeX Beginner's Guide

No Search Results

• Bibtex bibliography styles
• 1 Introduction and example
• 2 Table of stylename values
• 3 Further reading

Introduction and example

When using BiBTeX , the bibliography style is set and the bibliography file is imported with the following two commands:

where bibfile is the name of the bibliography .bib file, without the extension, and stylename is one of values shown in the table below .

Here is an example that you can open in Overleaf—the .bib file is created for you:

 Open in Overleaf (a suitable .bib file is generated)

Table of stylename values

Further reading

For more information see:

• Bibliography management with bibtex
• BibTeX documentation at CTAN web site
• tocbind package documentation
• Bibliography management with natbib
• Bibliography management with biblatex
• Table of contents
• Management in a large project
• Multi-file LaTeX projects
• Documentation Home
• Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes

Overleaf guides

• Creating a document in Overleaf
• Uploading a project
• Copying a project
• Creating a project from a template
• Using the Overleaf project menu
• Including images in Overleaf
• Exporting your work from Overleaf
• Working offline in Overleaf
• Using Track Changes in Overleaf
• Using bibliographies in Overleaf
• Sharing your work with others
• Using the History feature
• Debugging Compilation timeout errors
• How-to guides
• Guide to Overleaf’s premium features

LaTeX Basics

• Creating your first LaTeX document
• Choosing a LaTeX Compiler
• Paragraphs and new lines
• Bold, italics and underlining

Mathematics

• Mathematical expressions
• Subscripts and superscripts
• Brackets and Parentheses
• Fractions and Binomials
• Aligning equations
• Spacing in math mode
• Integrals, sums and limits
• Display style in math mode
• List of Greek letters and math symbols
• Mathematical fonts
• Using the Symbol Palette in Overleaf

Figures and tables

• Inserting Images
• Positioning Images and Tables
• Lists of Tables and Figures
• Drawing Diagrams Directly in LaTeX
• TikZ package

References and Citations

• Natbib bibliography styles
• Natbib citation styles
• Biblatex bibliography styles
• Biblatex citation styles
• Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec
• Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec
• International language support
• Quotations and quotation marks

Document structure

• Sections and chapters
• Cross referencing sections, equations and floats
• Nomenclatures
• Lengths in L a T e X
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering
• Paragraph formatting
• Line breaks and blank spaces
• Text alignment
• Page size and margins
• Single sided and double sided documents
• Multiple columns
• Code listing
• Code Highlighting with minted
• Using colours in LaTeX
• Margin notes
• Font sizes, families, and styles
• Font typefaces
• Supporting modern fonts with X Ǝ L a T e X

Presentations

• Environments

Field specific

• Theorems and proofs
• Chemistry formulae
• Feynman diagrams
• Molecular orbital diagrams
• Chess notation
• Knitting patterns
• CircuiTikz package
• Pgfplots package
• Typesetting exams in LaTeX
• Attribute Value Matrices

Class files

• Understanding packages and class files
• List of packages and class files
• Writing your own package
• Writing your own class

Advanced TeX/LaTeX

• In-depth technical articles on TeX/LaTeX

Get in touch

Have you checked our knowledge base ?

Message sent! Our team will review it and reply by email.

Email: 

Stack Exchange Network

Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow , the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.

Q&A for work

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

References at the end of beamer slides

I am preparing presentation with beamer and using pdflatex and bibtex . How can I put references at the end of a frame? What if I use allowframebreaks ?

I do not want all the references put together in one big frame at the end of my presentation, rather I want each reference as footnote on the frame where it has been used.

Note: I am using a custom bibliography style and author-year citation style.

I am using two external .bib files. One is the main .bib file and the other one is for journal name abbreviation.

• 1 Please add a minimal working example that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document} . Usually, we don't put a greeting or a “thank you” in our posts. While this might seem strange at first, it is not a sign of lack of politeness, but rather part of our trying to keep everything very concise. Accepting and upvoting answers is the preferred way here –  adn Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 21:49
• If this is the code you're using, there are a few problems. First, you have a \ in front of your bibfile name in the \nobibliography command. Second, that command is just like a \bibliography command, and should simply contain the names of both your .bib files. Lastly, you need to remove the \bibliography command, it's not needed in this case. –  Alan Munn Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 12:27

If you are using natbib for references, then you can use the bibentry package to create references in footnotes. It should be noted that this is a bit of a hack, and it doesn't really implement a proper footnote reference style, but emulates one. To deal with subsequent citations (as you request in the comments) I've created a second command \secondcite which will place a footnote referencing the correct citation's original footnote number without duplicating the bibliography entry itself. Here's an example:

If you want the references to be one big frame, then using [allowframebreaks] is the way to go. I find the standard formatting of references in beamer overly garish, so I subdue everything:

I also allow for the "(cont.)" to be used on subsequent slides:

The references slide itself is simple.

• `Since usually you want the references to be one big frame', I do not want all the references put together in one big frame at the end of my presentation, rather I want the reference as footnote on the frame where it was used. –  cosmicraga Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 2:31
• That wasn't clear from your question. What are you using for your bibliography - natbib or biblatex ? This is a lot easier to do with biblatex . –  Alan Munn Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 2:58
• Yes I use natbib' and I am not familiar with biblatex'. –  cosmicraga Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 4:27
• I am using `Montpellier' theme and this solution is not working in this theme. –  cosmicraga Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 4:45
• 1 There's no simple way to do this: what I've implemented here is not a true footnote citation system, it's a hack. But I've added a new command to refer to an already cited reference on the same slide. –  Alan Munn Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 0:23

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for browse other questions tagged beamer bibtex ..

• The Overflow Blog
• The hidden cost of speed
• The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
• Featured on Meta
• Announcing a change to the data-dump process
• Bringing clarity to status tag usage on meta sites

Hot Network Questions

• Is "She played good" a grammatically correct sentence?
• Conjugate elements in an extension
• Why didn't Air Force Ones have camouflage?
• What is the importance of bilinear functions?
• Where is this railroad track as seen in Rocky II during the training montage?
• In which town of Europe (Germany ?) were this 2 photos taken during WWII?
• Did the Turkish defense industry ever receive any significant foreign investment from any other OECD country?
• Why is it spelled "dummy" and not "dumby?"
• Deleting all files but some on Mac in Terminal
• Why does the church of latter day saints not recognize the obvious sin of the angel Moroni according to the account of Joseph Smith's own words?
• How rich is the richest person in a society satisfying the Pareto principle?
• Did Babylon 4 actually do anything in the first shadow war?
• How to modify orphan row due to break at large footnote that spans two pages?
• Gravitational potential energy of a water column
• do-release-upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS still no update available
• Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that talks about life and death
• An instructor is being added to co-teach a course for questionable reasons, against the course author's wishes—what can be done?
• Hashable and ordered enums to describe states of a process
• How do I learn more about rocketry?
• Confusion about time dilation
• How do you tip cash when you don't have proper denomination or no cash at all?
• how did the Apollo 11 know its precise gyroscopic position?
• Default umask for NFS user nobody
• "It never works" vs "It better work"