Black hole group BibTeX database

This is the BibTeX database for the Black Hole Group @ IAG USP, with over 1000 references in black hole and high energy astrophysics, and AI in astronomy as well as an auxiliary TeX file with abbreviations of common astrophysics journals.

Files

• journals.tex - abbreviations of journals for bibliography
• refs.bib - black hole references, bibtex format
• AI.bib - AI in astronomy references, bibtex format
• physics.bib - physics references, bibtex format

How to use the database

Make sure the files are in the same directory as your latex document. Then simply include the following line before \begin{document} in your latex document:

% Journal abbreviations \apj, \mnras etc (bibtex)
\include{journals}	

and include the following line at the end of the document just before \end{document}:

\bibliography{refs}    

Contributing to the database

Everybody is welcome to add references to the database and keep it growing. 😄

Just add papers to the database in the usual bibtex way, commit your file and push to this repo.

Guidelines for updating the bibtex file

1. Keep the consistent notation for bibtexkey and journal code

The notation for the bibtexkey field is Last Name of First Author + last two digits of year of publication.

Examples:

Yuan, F.; Lin, J.; Wu, K. & Ho, L. C. A magnetohydrodynamical model for the formation of episodic jets. MNRAS, 2009, 395, 2183

becomes

• bibtexkey = Yuan2009
• journal = \apj

F Yusef-Zadeh, R. Arendt, H. Bushouse, W. Cotton, D. Haggard, M. W. Pound, D. A. Roberts, M. Royster, and M. Wardle. A 3 pc SCALE JET-DRIVEN OUTFLOW FROM SGR A*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2012, Volume 758, Number 1

becomes

• bibtexkey = Yusef-Zadeh2012
• journal = \apjl

Common choices for the journal tag are: \apj, \apjl, \mnras, \aap, \apjs, \araa. Full list available in the journals.tex file.

2. Recommended apps for managing the database

Some useful apps you can use to manage the database:

• jabref
• mendeley
• bibdesk (macOS only)
• papers (macOS only)

Here is a screenshot of jabref and its convenient interface for managing references.

3. Easily grabbing bibtex info from a paper in NASA ADS, arXiv or DOI

Every search engine for references includes ways of copying the bibtex info for a paper.

Alternatively, for convenience, it is suggested to use the adspaste command-line tool. Some examples:

adspaste 1998ApJ...500..525S	# from ADS
adspaste 10.1093/mnras/stv260	# from DOI
adspaste 1411.4682	# from arXiv

In each case, the full bibtex info will be copied to the clipboard and ready to be inserted in database.

 

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