BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Text in References

[galakhad]

Dear all,

Do you know, how to include text into the references? Like "For reviews see: ... citation ...".

I'm working with achemso style which uses natbib apparently. I know that I can have a text in the references using \bibnote, but as far as I understand it only allows to have a note without a full citation following.


Thanks a lot in advance,
Iakov

[kaiserkarl13]

Could you post an example of what you expect this to look like? I'm having trouble understanding exactly what you want.

There is a "note" field in BibTeX that allows you to put arbitrary text at the end of a \bibitem, but that may not be what you mean.

[galakhad]

Hi, thanks for answering!
I want something like what is done in ref. 4 in the following snapshot:

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As far as I understood, the "note" field in bibtex will go after the main body of the citation, whether I need it in the beginning. Moreover, I will need the note to preceed a sub-list of references.

I figured out I can do anything I want if to use {thebibliography} and \bibitem, not bibtex, but that means rewriting the whole reference list...

[kaiserkarl13]

That's a tough one. I can think of two ways to do something equivalent that won't be in the bibliography:
(1) blah blah (For a recent example, see Ref.~\citenum{blah}).
(2) blah blah~\cite[recent example]{blah}.

You could also edit your .bib file and make another entry like this:

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@article{Harvey_w_note,
  author = "{For a recent example, see:  Harvey}, J. E. and Raw, S. A. and
             Taylor, R. J. K.",
  journal = "Org.\ Lett.",
  volume = 6,
  year = 2004,
  pages = "2611--2614"
}

The last one is [i]really[/i] not a good idea to do in general, but it [i]will[/i] work in this instance.  A better solution is to edit the .bbl file right after running BibTeX, which will need to be done every time.  You could write a script that does it automatically, such as
[code]
  sed -i 's/Harvey,\s\+J\./For a recent example, see:  \0/' myfile.bbl

if it needs to be done a lot.

You could also create and endnote (see the achemso documentation; if I recall correctly, there is a command to put an arbitrary end note into the bibliography)
with the appropriate text in it.

The reason this is complicated is that the example you found is generally considered either bad style or non-standard style (depending on who you ask). Most of the time, bibliographies are simply lists of references, not footnotes or endnotes (though many journals list endnotes in the reference list, too).

[kiera2]

Hi, I'm having this exact same problem - I want to put some short text notes at the beginning of a few references. I don't know about elsewhere, but this is common practice for theses in chemistry at my university.

I'm also using achemso, and often the references I want to add notes to are multi-part references using mciteplus, so unfortunately just fudging it by putting the text I want in front of the first author's name won't work - that gives me the text I want after the (a) marker for the head reference.

I'm not familiar with endnote so if kaiserkarl or anyone else could give me some more details on how I might go about using it to do this, I'd appreciate it.

[kaiserkarl13]

As a last resort, you can edit the .bbl file directly. DO NOT run BibTeX after doing this or it will overwrite your edits.

I don't really know how to do this in general (as I said, it's generally frowned upon).

[cgnieder]

Actually it can be done! You need the package notes2bib for the job. The manual says it's compatible with natbib, plain styles and biblatex.

Here's an example using biblatex:

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% compile with XeLaTeX and biber
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chem-angew]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\defbibheading{myhead}{\section*{References and Notes}}
\usepackage{notes2bib}

\begin{document}

A text \cite{aksin} with references \cite{herrmann,yoon} and a note
\bibnote{For a recent example, see \fullcite{aksin}} all in one list.

\printbibliography[heading=myhead]
\end{document}

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[cgnieder]

I wasn't aware of it, but achemso already provides the

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\bibnote

command. I don't know if there is a analogous bibTeX command to biblatex's

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\fullcite

so this is not exactly what you want:

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% compile with pdflatex and bibtex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage{achemso}

\begin{filecontents}{examples.bib}
@Article{aksin,
  author   = {Aks{\i}n, {\"O}zge and T{\"u}rkmen, Hayati and Artok, Levent and
      {\k{C}}etinkaya, Bekir and Ni, Chaoying and B{\"u}y{\"u}kg{\"u}ng{\"o}r, Orhan
      and {\"O}zkal, Erhan},
  indextitle   = {Effect of immobilization on catalytic characteristics},
  title    = {Effect of immobilization on catalytic characteristics of saturated
      Pd-N-heterocyclic carbenes in Mizoroki-Heck reactions},
  journaltitle   = jomch,
  volume   = {691},
  number   = {13},
  date    = {2006},
  pages    = {3027--3036}
}

@Article{herrmann,
  author   = {Herrmann, Wolfgang A. and {\"O}fele, Karl and Schneider, Sabine K. and
      Herdtweck, Eberhardt and Hoffmann, Stephan D.},
  indextitle   = {Carbocyclic carbene as an efficient catalyst, A},
  title    = {A carbocyclic carbene as an efficient catalyst ligand for C--C coupling
      reactions},
  journaltitle   = anch-ie,
  volume   = {45},
  number   = {23},
  date    = {2006},
  pages    = {3859--3862}
}

@Article{yoon,
  author   = {Yoon, Myeong S. and Ryu, Dowook and Kim, Jeongryul and Ahn, Kyo Han},
  indextitle   = {Palladium pincer complexes},
  title    = {Palladium pincer complexes with reduced bond angle strain: efficient catalysts
      for the Heck reaction},
  journaltitle   = {Organometallics},
  volume   = {25},
  number   = {10},
  date    = {2006},
  pages    = {2409--2411}
}
\end{filecontents}


\begin{document}

A text \cite{aksin} with references \cite{herrmann,yoon} and a note
\bibnote{For a recent example, see \citet*{aksin}} all in one list.

\bibliography{examples}
\end{document}

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