man pages section 1: User Commands

addbib(1)

Name

addbib– create or extend a bibliographic database

Synopsis

addbib [-a] [-p promptfile] database

Description

When addbib starts up, answering y to the initial Instructions? prompt yields directions. Typing n (or RETURN) skips the directions. 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)).

Options

The following options are supported:

-a: Suppresses prompting for an abstract. Asking for an abstract is the default. Abstracts are ended with a Control-D.
-p promptfile: Uses a new prompting skeleton, defined in promptfile. This file should contain prompt strings, a TAB, and the key-letters to be written to the database.

Usage

Bibliography Key Letters

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.

%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%R: Report, paper, or thesis (unpublished)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: Ignored by refer

Examples

Example 1 Editing the bibliography file

Except for A, each field should be given just once. Only relevant fields should be supplied.

%A	Mark Twain
%T	Life on the Mississippi
%I	Penguin Books
%C	New York
%D	1978

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWdoc