General ⇒ References to bibliography.

[shmill]

How to make Latex refer to articles from my bibliography using letters and simbols (for example, [SHM:2008]) instead of index number in the bibliography list. I am using BiBtex. It should not be difficult but I cant find any info.
Thanks a lot!

Sorry, isn't it clear question? I just need refer to articles not like [4], but like [SHM:2008].
Thanks for the help!

[Juanjo]

In your tex file you should have two lines like

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\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybibfile}

Just change the bib style:

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\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{mybibfile}

There are other bib styles, in addition to alpha, providing the format you search. Take also a look to the natbib package.

[shmill]

Thanks, it works!
This stile is also nice:
\bibliographystyle{apalike}