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When addbib starts up, answering y to the initial Instructions? prompt yields directions; typing n or RETURN skips them. addbib then prompts for various bibliographic fields, reads responses from the terminal, and sends output records to database. A null response (just RETURN ) means to leave out that field. A ‘-’ (minus sign) means to go back to the previous field. A trailing backslash allows a field to be continued on the next line. The repeating Continue? prompt allows the user either to resume by typing y or RETURN , to quit the current session by typing n or q, or to edit database with any system editor (see vi(1) , ex(1) , ed(1) ).
The most common key-letters and their meanings are given below. addbib insulates you from these key-letters, since it gives you prompts in English, but if you edit the bibliography file later on, you will need to know this information.
Ignored by refer
- %A
- Author’s name
- %B
- Book containing article referenced
- %C
- City (place of publication)
- %D
- Date of publication
- %E
- Editor of book containing article referenced
- %F
- Footnote number or label (supplied by refer)
- %G
- Government order number
- %H
- Header commentary, printed before reference
- %I
- Issuer (publisher)
- %J
- Journal containing article
- %K
- Keywords to use in locating reference
- %L
- Label field used by -k option of refer
- %M
- Bell Labs Memorandum (undefined)
- %N
- Number within volume
- %O
- Other commentary, printed at end of reference
- %P
- Page number(s)
- %Q
- Corporate or Foreign Author (unreversed)
- %R
- Report, paper, or thesis (unpublished)
- %S
- Series title
- %T
- Title of article or book
- %V
- Volume number
- %X
- Abstract -- used by roffbib, not by refer
- %Y,Z
%A Mark Twain %T Life on the Mississippi %I Penguin Books %C New York %D 1978