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6.9. WRITING REFERENCES BY BIBTEX 105(The first command defines just the style.)• When you compile the latex document, you have to run bibtex too.latex document.texbibtex documentlatex documentThe first command is a normal latex compilation. Command bibtexgenerates a file called document.bbl. It is similar to a latex bibliographylist, but it contains only those sources which are actually referredin your document. The last command includes the references into yourdocument and the resulting document.dvi file is ready.6.9.2 Bibtex entriesOften you can found the bibtex entries ready typed in the net. However,sometimes they are erroneous and you should be able to check that they arecorrect. Sometimes you have to write the bibtex entries yourself.6.9.3 Searching bibtex entries• Bibtex entries can be find in many digital libraries (e.g. ACM, citeseer)with the article.• DBLP Computer Science bibliography (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/ ∼ ley/db/index.html) contains a large collection of bibtex entries!• You can make a google search using the authors, paper name and word”bibtex” as keywords.Writing bibtex entriesWhen you write the bibtex entries, you should first decide what type of sourceyou have. The most common types are:• a journal paper → @article• a conference paper → @inproceedings• a book → @bookOther types: