Citations and bibliography

Citing your sources

• Academic writing must say where facts came from. LaTeX makes this tidy.
• You keep a list of sources, each with a key, and cite the key in your text.

The bibliography

• List your sources in a thebibliography environment, each as a \bibitem:

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
  \bibitem{lamport} Leslie Lamport. \emph{LaTeX}. 1986.
\end{thebibliography}

• The {9} just says "numbers are one digit wide". lamport is the key you choose.

Citing in the text

• Anywhere in the document, write \cite{lamport}:

LaTeX is powerful~\cite{lamport}.

• LaTeX prints [1] and keeps the numbers in order. Add a source and everything renumbers.