3 Bibliographies

This library provides support for bibliography management in a Scribble document. The define-cite form is used to bind procedures that create in-line citations and generate the bibilography in the document.

Individual bibliography entries are created with the make-bib function. See below for an example.

#lang scribble/base

@(require scriblib/autobib)

@(define-cite ~cite citet generate-bibliography)

@(define plt-tr1

(make-bib

#:title    "Reference: Racket"

#:author   (authors "Matthew Flatt" "PLT")

#:date     "2010"

#:location (techrpt-location #:institution "PLT Inc."

#:number "PLT-TR-2010-1")

#:url      "http://racket-lang.org/tr1/"))

Racket is fun@~cite[plt-tr1].

@(generate-bibliography)

For citations that reference a page number or section, the in-bib function can be used. For example, the following snippet:

Racket has a contract library.@~cite[(in-bib plt-tr1 ", §8")]

includes a citation to section 8 of the Racket reference.

The function bound to ~cite-id produces a citation referring to one or more bibliography entries with a preceding non-breaking space, by default sorting the entries to match the bibliography order. It has the contract

(->* (bib?) (#:sort? any/c) #:rest (listof bib?) element?)

The function bound to citet-id generates an element suitable for use as a noun—referring to a document or its author—for one or more bibliography entries which have the same authors. It has the contract

(->* (bib?) () #:rest (listof bib?) element?)

The function bound to generate-bibliography-id generates the section for the bibliography. It has the contract

(->* () (#:tag string? #:sec-title string?) part?)

The default value for the #:tag argument is "doc-bibliography" and for #:sec-title is "Bibliography".

The optional spaces-expr determines the number of blank lines that appear between citations. The default number of lines is 1.

The optional style-expr determines the way that citations and the bibliography are rendered.Programmer-defined styles may be supported in the future. Currently, two built-in style are provided, and author+date-style is the default.

For author+date-style, if two citations’ references would render the same (as judged by equal authors and dates that are considered the same) but are different, the optionally provided function from disambiguator-expr is used to add an extra element after the date; the default disambiguator adds a, b, etc. until z, and anything more ambiguous raises an exception. Date comparison is controlled by date-compare-exprs. Dates in citations and dates in the bibliography may be rendered differently, as specified by the optionally given render-date-expr functions.

Dates are internally represented as date values, so a date may be given, or a number or string that represent the year.

An element produced by a function like author-name tracks first, last names, and name suffixes separately, so that names can be ordered and rendered correctly. When a string is provided as an author name, the last non-empty sequence of alphabetic characters or - after a space is treated as the author name, and the rest is treated as the first name.

Defaults to #f.

Added in version 1.5 of package scribble-lib.