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Edgar Martín Hernández
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LaTeX

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LaTeX is a platform for prepare documents specially oriented for scientific documents, with specific support for mathematical expressions.

To create a document in LaTeX a predefined type of text must be selected to determine the appropriate global format. The default styles are book, report, article and letter. The text in LaTeX is introduced as plain text, and different functions can be used to define the text format, include images, tables, etc. Once the document is written in plain text, it is compiled and the final document is generated with the format defined.

LaTeX can be a little intimidating the first times, but presents many advantages for the preparation of scientific documents. The introduction of mathematical expressions faster than other methods, with support for a large variety of mathematical symbols, the introduction of subscripts and superscripts, Greek letters, and so on. Other great feature is the automatic numeration of sections, figures, tables, equations and bibliographic references, which is automatically updated when new references are added or some of them are removed.

Install LaTeX in Ubuntu: link

Install LaTeX in Windows:

  1. Install MiKTeX: link
  2. After install MiKTeX will update automatically
  3. Install TeXstudio: link

Bibliography management with LaTeX using BibTeX

Bibliography can be easily referenced using BibTeX. BibTeX is a tool integrated with LaTeX, which allow enter bibliographic references in LaTeX documents. The bibliographic references are defined in a separate file with .bib extension through the use of predefined entry types which have different fields to specify the each reference. The available entry types can be found here. Additionally an alias is assigned to each reference, which will be used for the intext references using the command \cite{alias}.

Once that the .bib file is defined, the bibliography section can be generated in the LaTeX document the following commands at the end of the document.

\bibliographystyle{bibligraphic style}
\bibliography{name of the .bib file (without .bib)}

Different bibliographic styles can be used. For more information about bibliographic styles in BibTeX see the following link.

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