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| | addbib - create or extend a bibliographic database |
SYNOPSIS
| | addbib [-a] [-p promptfile] database |
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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)).
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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.
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Bibliography Key Letters
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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.
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%A
- Author's name
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%B
- Book containing article referenced
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%C
- City (place of publication)
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%D
- Date of publication
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%E
- Editor of book containing article referenced
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%F
- Footnote number or label (supplied by refer)
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%G
- Government order number
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%H
- Header commentary, printed before reference
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%I
- Issuer (publisher)
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%J
- Journal containing article
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%K
- Keywords to use in locating reference
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%L
- Label field used by -k option of refer
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%M
- Bell Labs Memorandum (undefined)
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%N
- Number within volume
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%O
- Other commentary, printed at end of reference
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%P
- Page number(s)
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%Q
- Corporate or Foreign Author (unreversed)
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%R
- Report, paper, or thesis (unpublished)
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%S
- Series title
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%T
- Title of article or book
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%V
- Volume number
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%X
- Abstract -- used by roffbib, not by refer
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%Y,Z
- Ignored by refer
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| | Example 1. Editing the bibliography file
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Except for A, each field should be given just once. Only relevant fields should be supplied.
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%A Mark Twain
%T Life on the Mississippi
%I Penguin Books
%C New York
%D 1978
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Availability | SUNWdoc |
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