REFER(1)

NAME
refer, lookbib - find and insert literature references in documents

SYNOPSIS
refer [ option ] ...

lookbib [ file ] ...

DESCRIPTION
Lookbib accepts keywords from the standard input and searches a bibliographic data base for references that contain those keywords anywhere in title, author, journal name, etc. Matching references are printed on the standard output. Blank lines are taken as delimiters between queries.

Refer is a preprocessor for nroff or troff(1) that finds and formats references. The input files (standard input default) are copied to the standard output, except for lines between .[ and .] command lines, which are assumed to contain keywords as for lookbib, and are replaced by information from the bibliographic data base. The user may avoid the search, override fields from it, or add new fields. The reference data, from whatever source, are assigned to a set of troff strings. Macro packages such as ms(7) print the finished reference text from these strings. A flag is placed in the text at the point of reference; by default the references are indicated by numbers.

The following options are available:

-ar Reverse the first r author names (Jones, J. A. instead of J. A. Jones). If r is omitted all author names are reversed.

-b  Bare mode: do not put any flags in text (neither numbers nor labels).

-cstring
    Capitalize (with CAPS SMALL CAPS) the fields whose key-letters are in string.

-e  Instead of leaving the references where encountered, accumulate them until a sequence of the form
    		.[
    		$LIST$
    		.]
    is encountered, and then write out all references collected so far. Collapse references to the same source.

-kx Instead of numbering references, use labels as specified in a reference data line beginning %x; by default x is L.

-lm,n
    Instead of numbering references, use labels made from the senior author's last name and the year of publication. Only the first m letters of the last name and the last n digits of the date are used. If either m or ,n is omitted the entire name or date respectively is used.

-p  Take the next argument as a file of references to be searched. The default file is searched last.

-n  Do not search the default file.

-skeys
    Sort references by fields whose key-letters are in the keys string; permute reference numbers in text accordingly. Implies -e. The key-letters in keys may be followed by a number to indicate how many such fields are used, with + taken as a very large number. The default is AD which sorts on the senior author and then date; to sort, for example, on all authors and then title use -sA+T.

To use your own references, put them in the format described in pubindex(1) They can be searched more rapidly by running pubindex(1) on them before using refer; failure to index results in a linear search.

When refer is used with eqn, neqn or tbl, refer should be first, to minimize the volume of data passed through pipes.

FILES
/usr/dict/papers directory of default publication lists and indexes
/usr/lib/refer directory of programs

SEE ALSO