Bibliographies

For large documents requiring a good deal of revision, it can be difficult to coordinate references in the body of the document with the bibliography at its end. LaTeX provides a mechanism for automatically linking citations with items in the bibliography. Surround the bibliography with \begin{thebibliography}{9} and \end{thebibliography}. For each entry in the bibliography, start with \bibitem{label}, where label is some mnemonic for the reference.

With the bibliography in place, a citation in the body of the document is made with \cite{label}, where label is the same as what occurs in the corresponding \bibitem{label}.

In order to keep track of new references that have been added, you will often need to run LaTeX twice before previewing when using \cite.

What is the 9 in \begin{thebibliography}{9} for? It is a dummy number indicating how many digits to leave space for in the numbering of the bibliography. If you have 10-99 references, use \begin{thebibliography}{99} instead.

Practice: Create a document with a bibliography of five fake works, and cite each one at least once in your document.