[R] NEWBIE: @BOOK help?

[Abhijit Dasgupta]

As an addition, JabRef (which is a Java application) can automatically 
download citation information from CiteSeer and PubMed and store it in 
BibTeX format, albeit once you know the appropriate reference number

Douglas Bates wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Zembower, Kevin <kzembowe at jhuccp.org> wrote:
>   
>> In Henric's recent post, he included this output:
>>
>> @BOOK{R:Harrell:2001,
>>   AUTHOR = {Frank E. Harrell},
>>   TITLE = {Regression Modeling Strategies, with Applications to
>>                   Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic
>>                   Regression},
>>   PUBLISHER = {Springer},
>>   YEAR = 2001,
>>   NOTE = {ISBN 0-387-95232-2},
>>   URL = {http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/RmS}
>> }
>>
>> Can someone tell me how this is generated? I've noticed this in a few
>> recent posts. I attempted:
>>     
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "how this is generated".  The format is
> for a bibliographic reference system called BibTeX associated with the
> LaTeX text processing language.
>
> Most BibTeX users have built up a reference database by adding the
> entries by hand.  Editors like emacs have special modes to facilitate
> entering this information.
>
> Searching on the CTAN.org (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) web site
> may give some links to systems that can generate BibTeX reference
> databases automatically.  On Linux the tellico bibliographic database
> manager can search commercial sites like amazon.com and download
> information about specific books from there, then export it in BibTeX
> format.  I haven't tried it myself for books so I can't say how well
> it works.  I have used it for extracting information on movies from
> imdb.com and it does a good job on that.
>
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