List of BibTeX reference types

= BibTeX reference types =

BibTeX supports a fixed set of reference types, each type requiring specific fields to be given, optionally allowing several others, and excluding the rest. In particular, the types are as follows (type in bold, explanation in plain, fields required and optional for the type in brackets): article: An article from a journal or magazine (Required: author, title, journal, year - Optional: volume, number, pages, month, note, key), book: A book with an explicit publisher (Required: author/editor, title, publisher, year - Optional: volume, series, address, edition, month, note, key), booklet: A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution (Required: title - Optional: author, howpublished, address, month, year, note, key), conference: The same as inproceedings, included for Scribe compatibility (Required: author, title, booktitle, year - Optional: editor, pages, organization, publisher, address, month, note, key), inbook: A part of a book, usually untitled. May be a chapter (or section or whatever) and/or a range of pages (Required: author/editor, title, chapter/pages, publisher, year - Optional: volume, series, address, edition, month, note, key), incollection: A part of a book having its own title (Required: author, title, booktitle, year - Optional: editor, pages, organization, publisher, address, month, note, key), inproceedings: An article in a conference proceedings (Required: author, title, booktitle, year - Optional: editor, series, pages, organization, publisher, address, month, note, key), manual: Technical documentation (Required: title - Optional: author, organization, address, edition, month, year, note, key), mastersthesis: A Master's thesis (Required: author, title, school, year - Optional: address, month, note, key), misc: For use when nothing else fits (Required: none - Optional: author, title, howpublished, month, year, note, key), phdthesis: A Ph.D. thesis (Required: author, title, school, year - Optional: address, month, note, key), proceedings: The proceedings of a conference (Required: title, year - Optional: editor, publisher, organization, address, month, note, key), techreport: A report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series (Required: author, title, institution, year - Optional: type, number, address, month, note, key), unpublished: A document having an author and title, but not formally published (Required: author, title, note - Optional: month, year, key)