BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibliography

[Nadia_ZA]

Hi! I'm writing a bibliography.

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing 

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introduction}
A book on hamiltonian circuits is \cite{ref:tutte}.

\cleardoublepage

\chapter{Graphs} 
Owens \cite{ref:owens} constructed a non-hamiltonian graph.

\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
\def\bibindent{0.5in}
\begin{thebibliography}{99\kern\bibindent}
\makeatletter
\def\@biblabel#1{}
\let\old@bibitem\bibitem
\def\bibitem#1{\old@bibitem{#1}\leavevmode\kern-\bibindent}
\makeatother

\bibitem{ref:owens} Owens, P. J. (1981). Non-hamiltonian simple 3-polytopes whose faces are all 5-gons or 7-gons. {\em Discrete Mathematics, 36}, 227-230.

\bibitem{ref:tutte} Tutte, W. T. (1946). On hamiltonian circuits. {\em Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 21}, 98-101.	

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

How can I have this style of citation (1981) or (Owens, 1981)? I also want each reference to be written in single spacing and a double space between references. What should I insert/type to achieve that? 

[Johannes_B]

Doing the bibliography this way (by hand) isn't the way to go, you can automate this and later change your mind and set the style of either the references in text or the bibliography.
There are commands in your example that are obsolete for 20 years.
I recommend to put your bibliographical data into a database (Read more about BibTeX-data bases).
Package biblatex will collect the information needed to run the helper program biber.

[Nadia_ZA]

Hi! I've put my bibliographical data into a bib file. As I have mentioned earlier, I want each entry to be single spaced and double spaced between entries. By the way, the body of the text is to be typed with double spacing. I've read several posts on this forum that are related to mine. But, I still can't figure out how to do. I've put \singlespacing command (as shown below in the code) but it makes the whole references to be single spaced. Please help.

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\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
@article{gz1974,
	title={The existence of certain planar maps},
	author={Gr{\"u}nbaum, Branko and Zaks, Joseph},
	journal={Discrete Mathematics},
	volume={10},
	number={1},
	pages={93--115},
	year={1974},
	publisher={North-Holland}
}

@article{owens1984regular,
	title={Regular planar graphs with faces of only two types and shortness parameters},
	author={Owens, PJ},
	journal={Journal of graph theory},
	volume={8},
	number={2},
	pages={253--275},
	year={1984},
	publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing 

\usepackage[round]{natbib}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introduction}
\citet{gz1974} have written a paper on planar maps.

\cleardoublepage

\chapter{Graphs} 
3-, 4-, 5-regular non-hamiltonian graphs can be found in \citep{owens1984regular}.

\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
\setlength{\bibhang}{0.5in}
\singlespacing
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document} 

[Johannes_B]

Putting \singlespace to the bibliography will set each bibitem single spaced. The distance between to item can be changed by the length bibsep. You can change it just like you did with bibhang

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\setlength{\bibsep}{0.5in}

Choose a value you like

Now, for completeness the example with biblatex. Some things are similar, some are slightly different. It has some features that i don't want to miss. And you can alter the appearance relatively easy.

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\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
	@article{gz1974,
		title={The existence of certain planar maps},
		author={Gr{\"u}nbaum, Branko and Zaks, Joseph},
		journal={Discrete Mathematics},
		volume={10},
		number={1},
		pages={93--115},
		year={1974},
		publisher={North-Holland}
	}

	@article{owens1984regular,
		title={Regular planar graphs with faces of only two types and shortness parameters},
		author={Owens, PJ},
		journal={Journal of graph theory},
		volume={8},
		number={2},
		pages={253--275},
		year={1984},
		publisher={Wiley Online Library}
	}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\setlength{\bibitemsep}{\baselineskip}
\setlength{\bibhang}{1in}
\begin{document}

\chapter{Introduction}
\citet{gz1974} have written a paper on planar maps. On the other
hand, \citeauthor{companion} have written \citetitle{companion}
in \citeyear{companion}.

\blindtext

\chapter{Graphs}
3-, 4-, 5-regular non-hamiltonian graphs can be found in \citep{owens1984regular}.

\singlespacing
\printbibliography[title=References]
\end{document}

Hint, click on »open in writelatex« to check the output and play around.

[Nadia_ZA]

Hi Johannes! The output pdf has gz1974, owens1984regular, companion printed in bold and no bibliography. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 with TeXworks. I've compiled pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex and repeated the combination many times. Here are some of the output written on the console output.

Package biblatex Warning: No "backend" specified, using Biber backend.
(biblatex) To use BibTeX, load biblatex with
(biblatex) the "backend=bibtex" option.
Package biblatex Warning: 'babel/polyglossia' detected but 'csquotes' missing.
(biblatex) Loading 'csquotes' recommended.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'gz1974' on page 1 undefined on input line 41.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'companion' on page 1 undefined on input line 42.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'companion' on page 1 undefined on input line 42.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'companion' on page 1 undefined on input line 43.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'owens1984regular' on page 2 undefined on input line 48.
LaTeX Warning: Empty bibliography on input line 51.
LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file:
(biblatex) test3(3)
(biblatex) and rerun LaTeX afterwards.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Nadia,

you need to run biber instead of bibtex with those settings,

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

I should have mentioned that.

You can find some pictures how to include biber in Texworks at TeXwelt.

Or have a look at TeX.SX for some english explanations.