A bibliography (bibliography) can be written and put anywhere in the document. It appears as a chapter or a section and is composed by several divisions (bibliodiv) displayed as sections or subsections.
The writer selects information that describes each bibliography entry (biblioentry), and chooses the presentation order. The titles and authors are displayed first.
Example 3.15. A Bibliography
<bibliography><title>Bibliography Example</title>
<bibliodiv><title>References</title>
<biblioentry>
<title>Document title</title>
<author><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Doe</surname></author>
<pubsnumber>DEX000567325</pubsnumber>
</biblioentry>
</bibliodiv>
<bibliodiv><title>White papers</title>
<biblioentry>
<title>Technical notes</title>
<authorgroup>
<author><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Doe</surname></author>
<author><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Marion</surname></author>
</authorgroup>
<pubsnumber>DEX000704520</pubsnumber>
</biblioentry>
</bibliodiv>
</bibliography>
Instead of writing the bibliographic materials in DocBook you can reuse some already available BibTeX databases. Of course, this feature is specific to dblatex, that will automatically call bibtex if some bibtex databases are used.
To do so, write a bibliodiv containing an empty
bibliomixed element having a
bibtex processing instruction specifying the databases to use
and the style to apply.
More precisely here are the attributes supported by the
bibtex PI:
This attribute is mandatory and specifies the databases to use.
The databases are separated by
commas, and must not contain the file suffix (.bib). The bibfiles
paths must be absolute or relative to the base directory of the document. You
can also add some bibfile paths by using the -L option.
Optional attribute specifying the bibliographic style to apply for rendering
the databases. You can also change globally the style to apply with the
latex.biblio.style.
The actual style file used by
bibtex is searched in the default paths, but some extra paths
can be added by using the -l option.
Optional print mode. The available values are:
Print all the entries contained in the databases.
Print only the entries cited in the document.
Print only the entries not cited in the document.
When the attribute is not used, the
latex.biblio.output parameter is used as print mode. By
default the print mode is set to 'all'.
Some bibliodivs embedding bibliographic entries can be mixed with some bibliodivs using BibTeX databases, as shown by Example 3.16, “Bibliography using BibTeX databases”.
Example 3.16. Bibliography using BibTeX databases
<bibliography><title>Bibliography Example</title>
<bibliodiv><title>References</title>
<biblioentry>
<title>Document Title</title>
<author><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Doe</surname></author>
<pubsnumber>DEX000567325</pubsnumber>
</biblioentry>
</bibliodiv>
<bibliodiv><title>Bibtex References</title>
<bibliomixed><?bibtex bibfiles="bib/latex-bib" bibstyle="alpha"?></bibliomixed>
</bibliodiv>
<bibliodiv><title>Cited Bibtex References</title>
<bibliomixed><?bibtex bibfiles="bib/database1,bib/database2"
bibstyle="plain"
mode="cited"?></bibliomixed>
</bibliodiv>
</bibliography>
You can apply natbib citation styles by playing with the citation role
attribute, or with a dblatex processing instruction. The
natbib use is enabled only when the citation.natbib.use
paramater is set to 1; if not (default) the role attribute or PI are not taken
into account even if present. The natbib package can be loaded with user specific
options by setting the citation.natbib.options
parameter.
When using the role attribute, simply type the natbib citation command to
apply. When using the dblatex PI, put the natbib command in
the citestyle attribute.
If you need to put some square brackets "[ ]" in the citation texts, enclose the whole text with "{ }" to protect them (as you would do in latex).
Here are some examples:
<para>
<citation role="\citep[see][chap. #2]">texbook</citation>
<citation role="\citep[see][{[chap. #2]}]">texbook</citation>
<citation><?dblatex citestyle="\citep[see][chap. #2]"?>texbook</citation>
<citation>texbook</citation>
</para>You can use a global natib citation style with the
citation.default.style parameter. By default the
parameter is empty, and therefor is not used.