Step 3: Setup BIBTEX Wrapper
Because a bibliography as well as one or more lists of references must be generated for the thesis, BIBTEX must be run on multiple different files. To facilitate this, a wrapper script for BIBTEX can be used, which will allow you to just click the BIBTEX button in your editor to generate all of the necessary files.
Unless the wrapper detects that it is running on the thesis, it will just run BIBTEX on the requested file as if there was no wrapper. This allows it to be used as the BIBTEX executable in your editor, and still work properly with other LATEX documents.
Wrapper scripts are given for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. See the appropriate section below for installing it on your operating system.
Microsoft Windows
Download the Windows batch file uribibtex.bat and save it somewhere on your system. This can be the desktop, the directory that contains the thesis template files, or anywhere else that you like. Just make sure that is is not deleted or moved from this location after you configure your editor.
In your editor, replace the bibtex executable with the full path to the uribibtex.bat that you just saved.
To do this in Texmaker:
- Select Options → Configure Texmaker from the menu
- Select the Commands icon on the left
- For the Bibtex item, click the icon to the right and select the uribibtex.bat that you just saved.
MacOS
Download the script file uribibtex.sh and save it somewhere on your system. This can be your home directory, your desktop, the directory that contains the thesis template files, or anywhere else that you like. Just make sure that is is not deleted or moved from this location after you configure your editor. Note that uribibtex.sh must be executable, which it should already be.
In your editor, replace the bibtex executable with the full path to the uribibtex.sh that you just saved.
To do this in Texmaker:
- Select texmaker → Preferences... from the menu bar
- Select the Commands icon on the left
- For the Bibtex item, click the icon to the right and select the uribibtex.sh that you just saved.
Linux
Download the script file uribibtex.sh and extract it somewhere on your system. This can be your home directory, your desktop, the directory that contains the thesis template files, or anywhere else that you like. Just make sure that is is not deleted or moved from this location after you configure your editor. Note that uribibtex.sh must be executable, which it should already be.
In your editor, replace the bibtex executable with the full path to the uribibtex.sh that you just saved.
To do this in Texmaker:
- Select Options → Configure Texmaker from the menu
- Select the Commands icon on the left
- For the Bibtex item, click the icon to the right and select the uribibtex.sh that you just saved.
Getting Started
- Introduction
- Install LATEX and an Editor
- Get the Template Files
- Setup BIBTEX Wrapper
- Verify the Setup
- Initial Configuration
Template Reference
Help With Latex
- LATEX Home
- The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε
- LATEX WikiBook
- TEX Users Group Online tutorial
- Comprehensive Symbol List
- Google for "latex help"
