[OS X TeX] thebibliography - arXiv

Alan Munn amunn at gmx.com
Tue Apr 26 12:25:27 EDT 2011


On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Vic Norton wrote:

> I am trying to prepare a TeX submission to arXiv.org for the first time.
> The paper is now on my home site as
>   http://vic.norton.name/finance-math/notionalPortfolios.pdf
> 
> I want to send the paper as one LaTeX file plus a couple of PDF images,
> but I am unclear as to how to incorporate the biography, which consists
> of only two references.
> 
> In the current preamble I use
>  \usepackage[style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
> and, in the external BibTeX bibliography file, the references read
> 
> @book{Markowitz:1987wd,
> 	Author = {Harry M. Markowitz},
> 	Date-Added = {2009-08-17 08:46:07 -0400},
> 	Date-Modified = {2009-08-17 11:22:27 -0400},
> 	Keywords = {{portfolio management} {mathematical models}},
> 	Publisher = {Blackwell},
> 	Title = {Mean-Variance Analysis in Portfolio Choice and Capital Markets},
> 	Year = {1987}}
> 
> @online{Norton:2010fk,
> 	Author = {Vic Norton},
> 	Date-Added = {2009-08-17 08:46:07 -0400},
> 	Date-Modified = {2011-04-25 09:02:59 -0400},
> 	Keywords = {{security returns}},
> 	Month = {05},
> 	Note = {Unpublished manuscript},
> 	Read = {Yes},
> 	Title = {Adjusted closing prices},
> 	Url = {http://vic.norton.name/finance-math/adjustedClosingPrices.pdf},
> 	Year = {2010},
> 	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://vic.norton.name/finance-math/adjustedClosingPrices.pdf}}
> 
> How do I incorporate this information into a single LaTeX document that
> ends with
> 
> \begin{thebibliography}{2}
> 
> \bibitem{Markowitz:1987wd}
>   ...
> 
> \bibitem{Norton:2010fk}
>   ...
> 
> \end{thebibliography}
> \end{document}
> 
> 

This is unfortunately non-trivial with biblatex.  It might be faster to use natbib instead for this purpose.  There was a discussion of this here <http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12175/biblatex-submitting-to-a-journal> on tex.stackechange.

Alan


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