NAME

addbib - create or extend a bibliographic database

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/addbib [ -a ] [ -p promptfile ] database

DESCRIPTION

When addbib starts up, answering y to the initial Instructions? prompt yields directions; typing n or RETURN skips them. addbib then prompts for various bibliographic fields, reads responses from the terminal, and sends output records to database. A null response (RETURN) means to leave out that field. A `-' (minus sign) means to go back to the previous field. A trailing backslash allows a field to be continued on the next line. The repeating Continue? prompt allows the user either to resume by typing y or RETURN, to quit the current session by typing n or q, or to edit database with any system editor (vi, ex, ed). The following options are available:

-a   Suppress prompting  for  an  abstract;  asking  for  an
     abstract  is  the  default.  Abstracts are ended with a
     CTRL-D.

-p promptfile

Use a new prompting skeleton, defined in promptfile. This file should contain prompt strings, a TAB, and the key-letters to be written to the database.

USAGE

Bibliography Key Letters

The most common key-letters and their meanings are given below. addbib insulates you from these key-letters, since it gives you prompts in English, but if you edit the bibliography file later on, you will need to know this information.

%A   Author's name

%B   Book containing article referenced

%C   City (place of publication)

%D   Date of publication

%E   Editor of book containing article referenced

%F   Footnote number or label (supplied by refer(1))

%G   Government order number

%H   Header commentary, printed before reference

%I   Issuer (publisher)

%J   Journal containing article

%K   Keywords to use in locating reference

%L   Label field used by -k option of refer(1)

%M   Bell Labs Memorandum (undefined)

%N   Number within volume

%O   Other commentary, printed at end of reference

%P   Page number(s)

%Q   Corporate or Foreign Author (unreversed)

%R   Report, paper, or thesis (unpublished)

%S   Series title

%T   Title of article or book

%V   Volume number

%X   Abstract - used by roffbib, not by refer

%Y,Z Ignored by refer

SEE ALSO

indxbib(1), lookbib(1),  refer(1),  roffbib(1),  sortbib(1),
ed(1), ex(1), vi(1) in the User's Reference Manual.