Sample entries

Report:
 
    @techreport{aa-cfi-89
    , author =      "P. K. Agarwal and B. Aronov"
    , title =       "Counting facets and incidences"
    , type =        "Report"
    , number =      "90-38"
    , institution = "DIMACS, Rutgers Univ."
    , address =     "New Brunswick, NJ"
    , year =        1989
    , keywords =    "combinatorial geometry, combinatorial complexity,
    hyperplane arrangements, triangle arrangements"
    , precedes =    "aa-cfi-92"
    }
 
Thesis:
 
    @phdthesis{b-gtfga-80
    , author =      "K. Q. Brown"
    , title =       "Geometric transforms for fast geometric algorithms"
    , type =        "Ph.{D}. Thesis"
    , school =      "Dept. Comput. Sci., Carnegie-Mellon Univ."
    , address =     "Pittsburgh, PA"
    , year =        1980
    , note =        "Report CMU-CS-80-101"
    , keywords =    "doctoral thesis, geometric transformations"
    , comments =    "UMI DA8012772, 154 pp."
    , update =      "93.05 jones"
    }
 
Article in proceedings:
 
    @inproceedings{oy-nubkm-88
    , author =      "M. H. Overmars and C.-K. Yap"
    , title =       "New upper bounds in {Klee}'s measure problem"
    , booktitle =   "Proc. 29th Annu. IEEE Sympos. Found. Comput. Sci."
    , year =        1988
    , pages =       "550--556"
    , keywords =    "$d$-dimensional"
    , comments =    "$O(n^{d/2}\log n)$ time, $O(n)$ space"
    , precedes =    "oy-nubkm-91"
    , succeeds =    "k-cmbcl-77"
    }
 
Article in proceedings, in series:
 
    @incollection{m-pla-88
    , author =      "S. Meiser"
    , title =       "Point location in arrangements"
    , booktitle =   "Computational Geometry and its Applications"
    , series =      "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"
    , volume =      333
    , publisher =   "Springer-Verlag"
    , year =        1988
    , pages =       "71--84"
    , succeeds =    "m-seah-88"
    }
 
Article in proceedings, in journal:
 
    % use an "article" type, and put conference name in note field

    @article{wa-hsrup-77
    , author =      "K. Weiler and P. Atherton"
    , title =       "Hidden surface removal using polygon area sorting"
    , journal =     "Comput. Graph."
    , volume =      11
    , number =      2
    , year =        1977
    , pages =       "214--222"
    , note =        "Proc. SIGGRAPH '77"
    }
 
Article in book:
 
    % existing entries use "incollection" or "inproceedings" depending on
    % whether conversion software thought it recognized a proceedings title.
    % "inbook" is for citing a portion (like a chapter) of a monograph.
 
    @incollection{w-cgmp-85
    , author =      "S. H. Whitesides"
    , title =       "Computational geometry and motion planning"
    , editor =      "G. T. Toussaint"
    , booktitle =   "Computational Geometry"
    , publisher =   "North-Holland"
    , address =     "Amsterdam, Netherlands"
    , year =        1985
    , pages =       "377--427"
    }
 
Article in journal:
 
    @article{gs-ngcha-87
    , author =      "D. Gries and I. Stojmenovi{\'c}"
    , title =       "A note on {Graham}'s convex hull algorithm"
    , journal =     "Inform. Process. Lett."
    , volume =      25
    , year =        1987
    , pages =       "323--327"
    , succeeds =    "g-eadch-72"
    }
 
Book:
 
    @book{o-agta-87
    , author =      "J. O'Rourke"
    , title =       "Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms"
    , publisher =   "Oxford University Press"
    , address =     "New York, NY"
    , year =        1987
    , keywords =    "visibility, decomposition, covering, partition,
    geometric graphs"
    }

Proceedings (it is encouraged to create a separate entry for recording
conference minutae like editors, dates, and location):

    @proceedings{k-p6ccc-94
    , title =       "Proc. 6th Canad. Conf. Comput. Geom."
    , editor =      "J. Mark Keil"
    , publisher =   "Dept. Comput. Sci., Univ. Saskatchewan"
    , address =     "Saskatoon, SK"
    , month =       aug
    , year =        1994
    , comments =    "C\$40 cheque or money order payable to Univ. Saskatchewan,
    includes postage"
    , update =      "95.01 smid, 94.09 jones"
    }