[aklug] Re: LaTeX / BibTex question

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

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> Christopher Howard wrote:
>> Question for one of you LaTeX geniuses:
>>
>> I'm trying to learn to use LaTex for the first time. I understand (I
>> think) that you put the reference in the BibTex file, something like so:
>>
>> @Book{ herklots,
>> author =3D {H.G.G. Herklots},
>> title =3D {How Our Bible Came To Us},
>> publisher =3D {Oxford University Press},
>> year =3D {1957},
>> address =3D {New York},
>> pages =3D {11-12},
>> }
>>
>> And you cite it (I think) with something like \cite{herklots}. But if
>> you make another quotation from the same book later on from, say, page
>> 245, do you have to repeat all the above information in a new BibTex
>> @Book entry? Or is there some way to say use the same record, but with a
>> different page number? Or am I totally off track on how this whole
>> system works? :]
>>
>
> Forget it... figured it out on my own. I had mistakenly assumed that the
> page number of the citation went in the "pages" field in the BibTeX
> entry. Actually, the page number goes in the citation, like so:
>
> \cite[11-12]{herklots}
>
> The "pages" field in the BibTeX entry is for the total number of pages
> in the book, or the page numbers of the article in the journal.
>

Thanks for getting back to us with the solution.

Mike B.

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Received on Wed Aug 5 23:15:22 2009