It seems the format in the Reference section is a little off! Can you please show me how to format the citation to list authors' last name first?
Thanks all.
Here is the current form in the Reference section:
C. B. Grimmond, A. Isard, and J. Belding. Development and evaluation of
continuously weighing mini-lysimeters. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,
62(3-4):205{218, 1992.
I use BibDesk to organize the citation database. Here is what I am using in the TeXstudio:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{/Users/me/Citation/citation}
\end{document}
You can try to change the Bibtex Bibliography style to 'acm' or 'apalike'
\bibliographystyle{stylename}
\bibliography{bibfile}
Read more about other styles: https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Bibtex_bibliography_styles
How do you left align an entire table in Markdown/Pandoc? I know about different ways of specifying tables and how alignment of columns are done, but I cannot find a way to shift the table from center aligned to left aligned (have even tryed embedding <div style="float: left>..</div> which didn't work). Do I have to switch to LaTeX to do this? I will export to pdf later on, if that makes a difference.
I now found a solution to this problem at tex.stackexchange.com. Apparently pandoc inserts \centering for every float in the document. This can be cancelled by inserting \let\centering\relax in a custom preample to pandoc (as pandoc argument -H custompreample.tex). The link also describes more detailed ways to for example define different floats for tables and figures.
I've found this solution here.
a simple \usepackage in header-includes: that looks doing the job itself...
- \usepackage[margins=raggedright]{floatrow}
I hope it won't have side effects. Currently, on my pandoc generated pdfs, none, but I don't know its boundaries.
it has at least one limit: it applies upon every table of your pdf, and not a single one, if it's what you were looking for.
I was not able to get the solutions here to work--in LaTeX. I created a new longtable environment to make tables the way I wanted them. That was easier in the end. Here's an example Rmd file.
---
title: "Custom table"
header-includes:
- \usepackage{longtable,booktabs}
output: pdf_document
---
\newenvironment{mylong}
{\begin{longtable}[l]{p{.25in}p{3in}p{3in}}Line & Statements & Reasons\\
\toprule\addlinespace }
{ \addlinespace\bottomrule\end{longtable} }
\begin{mylong}
1& $a+b=a+d$ & Given P10, if $b=d$, then 1 is true\\
2& $a+b=c$ & Given\\
3& $a+d=c$ & Given P9, if 1 and 2 are true, then 3 is true. QED\\
\end{mylong}
I'm trying to get my latex sections to be labeled 1.0, 2.0 instead of 1, 2. Is there an easy way to do this or some way to define the specific numbers I want sections to be numbered?
EDIT:
I have this basic outline:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\section{first}
\subsection{second}
\end{document}
I currently see:
1 first
1.1 second
I would like:
1.0 first
1.1 second
This should do the trick for you. Add the following lines to the preamble:
\renewcommand*\thesection{\arabic{section}.0}
\renewcommand*\thesubsection{\arabic{section}.\arabic{subsection}}
EDIT:
Changed from document type book to document type article. i.e. chapter replaced with section and section replaced with subsection.
EDIT:
Thanks for pointing out the \arabic command! I edited my answer accordingly.
I'm Trying to solve a little problem that I have with a book I'm writing, I was wondering if could you give me a hand with my work.
I'm trying to rename the automatic captions in the appendix's tables
that I have. By default Latex do this:
Appendix A:
Table A.1
Table A.2
.
.
Appendix B:
Table B.1
Table B.2
.
.
The problem is: I have 6 chapters in my book, but each chapter except
the first one have appendices and All appendix go in the end of the
book. And All tables and figures in the appendix are A not B or C,
like this:
Anexo 2 <- The renamed appendix 2
Table A2_1
Table A2_2
Table A2_3
.
.
Anexo 3
Table A3_1
Table A3_2
Table A3_3
.
.
Could you help me??? I'll appreciate it so much
Thanks,
Dennis
Firstly, to change 'appendix' to 'Anexo',
\renewcommand{\appendixname}{Anexo}
The \appendix command changes the way sectional units are numbered. I too have found the \appendix command sometimes causes problems since everything which follows it is treated as part of the appendix.
You can create a section labelled 'Appendix' with distinctive numbering by using the \section command with suitably redefined commands for the counters. The following example generates a single 'Appendix' with equations numbered A-1, A-2, ...
\renewcommand{\theequation}{A-\arabic{equation}}
% redefine the command that creates the equation no.
\setcounter{equation}{0} % reset counter
\section*{APPENDIX} % use *-form to suppress numbering
With several appendices you can get appropriate numbering by redefining the \thesection command and resetting the section counter.
Look into the appendix package and its appendices environment. For localized names, look into the babel package instead.
By default (using the plain style) BibTeX orders citations alphabetically.
How to order the citations by order of appearance in the document?
There are three good answers to this question.
Use the unsrt bibliography style, if you're happy with its formatting otherwise
Use the makebst (link) tool to design your own bibliography style
And my personal recommendation:
Use the biblatex package (link). It's the most complete and flexible bibliography tool in the LaTeX world.
Using biblatex, you'd write something like
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[sorting=none]{biblatex}
\bibliography{journals,phd-references} % Where journals.bib and phd-references.bib are BibTeX databases
\begin{document}
\cite{robertson2007}
\cite{earnshaw1842}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Change
\bibliographystyle{plain}
to
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
Then rebuild it a few times to replace the .aux and .bbl files that were made when you used the plain style.
Or simply delete the .aux and .bbl files and rebuild.
If you use MiKTeX you shouldn't need to download anything extra.
The best I came up with is using the unsrt style, which seems to be a tweaked plain style. i.e.
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{bibliography}
However what if my style is not the default?
Just a brief note - I'm using a modified version of plain.bst sitting in the directory with my Latex files; it turns out having sorting by order of appearance is a relatively easy change; just find the piece of code:
...
ITERATE {presort}
SORT
...
... and comment it - I turned it to:
...
%% % avoid sort:
%% ITERATE {presort}
%%
%% SORT
...
... and then, after running bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex - the citations will be sorted by order of appearance (that is, they will be unsorted :) ).
Cheers!
EDIT: just realized that what I wrote is actually in the comment by #ChrisN: "can you edit it to remove the SORT command" ;)
You answered your own question---unsrt is to be used when you want references to ne listed in the order of appeareance.
But you might also want to have a look at natbib, an extremely flexible citation package. I can not imagine living without it.
I'm a bit new to Bibtex (and to Latex in general) and I'd like to revive this old post since I found it came up in many of my Google search inquiries about the ordering of a bibliography in Latex.
I'm providing a more verbose answer to this question in the hope that it might help some novices out there facing the same difficulties as me.
Here is an example of the main .tex file in which the bibliography is called:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
So basically this is where the body of your document goes.
``FreeBSD is easy to install,'' said no one ever \cite{drugtrafficker88}.
``Yeah well at least I've got chicken,'' said Leeroy Jenkins \cite{goodenough04}.
\newpage
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr} % Use ieeetr to list refs in the order they're cited
\bibliography{references} % Or whatever your .bib file is called
\end{document}
...and an example of the .bib file itself:
#ARTICLE{ goodenough04,
AUTHOR = "G. D. Goodenough and others",
TITLE = "What it's like to have a sick-nasty last name",
JOURNAL = "IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens.",
YEAR = "xxxx",
volume = "xx",
number = "xx",
pages = "xx--xx"
}
#BOOK{ drugtrafficker88,
AUTHOR = "G. Drugtrafficker",
TITLE = "What it's Like to Have a Misleading Last Name",
YEAR = "xxxx",
PUBLISHER = "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc."
ADDRESS = "The Florida Alps, FL, USA"
}
Note the references in the .bib file are listed in reverse order but the references are listed in the order they are cited in the paper.
More information on the formatting of your .bib file can be found here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management
I often use the bibliography style natbib because it supplies quite complete set of formats as well as tags for us.
Add this if you want the number of citations to appear in order in the document
they will only be unsorted in the reference page:
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
I used the following in overleaf and become in ascending order:
\usepackage{cite}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
with unsrt the problem is the format. use \bibliographystyle{ieeetr} to get refences in order of citation in document.
If you happen to be using amsrefs they will override all the above - so comment out:
\usepackage{amsrefs}
The datatool package offers a nice way to sort bibliography by an arbitrary criterion, by converting it first into some database format.
Short example, taken from here and posted for the record:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{databib}
\begin{document}
% First argument is the name of new datatool database
% Second argument is list of .bib files
\DTLloadbbl{mybibdata}{acmtr}
% Sort database in order of year starting from most recent
\DTLsort{Year=descending}{mybibdata}
% Add citations
\nocite{*}
% Display bibliography
\DTLbibliography{mybibdata}
\end{document}
I use natbib in combination with bibliographystyle{apa}. Eg:
\begin{document}
The body of the document goes here...
\newpage
\bibliography{bibliography} % Or whatever you decided to call your .bib file
\usepackage[round, comma, sort&compress ]{natbib}
bibliographystyle{apa}
\end{document}