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Guide to BibTeX Type PhdThesis

BibTeX is a reference management tool that is commonly used in LaTeX documents. The “phdthesis” BibTeX type is used for PhD dissertations or theses. In this guide, we will explain the required and optional fields for the “phdthesis” BibTeX type.

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Required Fields

The “phdthesis” BibTeX type requires the following fields:

• author : The author of the thesis.
• title : The title of the thesis.
• school : The name of the institution that awarded the degree.
• year : The year the degree was awarded.

Optional Fields

In addition to the required fields, the “phdthesis” BibTeX type also has a number of optional fields that can be used to provide additional information. These fields include:

• type : The type of the thesis, such as “PhD thesis” or “Master’s thesis”.
• address : The location of the institution.
• month : The month the thesis was submitted.
• note : Any additional information about the thesis.

Here is an example of how to use the “phdthesis” BibTeX type:

In this example, the BibTeX entry defines a PhD thesis authored by John Smith titled “An Analysis of Example”. The degree was awarded in 2022 by the University of Example, and the thesis was submitted in June in Example City, CA. The type of the thesis is specified as “PhD thesis”, and a note is included that provides a URL for the thesis.

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What is BibTeX?

BibTeX is a LaTeX auxiliary tool for:

• Inserting references from one or more bibliographic databases;
• Citing references in documents;
• Creating bibliographies or reference lists;
• Entering manually or automatically importing references from databases such as Compendex, Web of Science, Google Scholar, etc.;
• Importing from other bibliographic management software, such as EndNote and Zotero;
• Separating content (the bibliographic references) from presentation (the bibliographic style);
• Producing bibliographies according to different citation styles.

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• It is recommended in the scientific community because it provides for managing large bibliographies.
• Allows sharing bibliographic databases among users and using several bibliographic files in the same document.
• It is a recognized standard that enables formatting bibliographies to meet the requirements of diverse scientific publishers (many important scientific journals provide templates).

Entry Types and Required Fields

BibTeX provides a set of predefined entries. Other types can be added depending on the bibliographic style. The following table shows the supported entry types of IEEEtran.bst (* = additional entry for this style). For more information, consult How to Use the IEEEtran BibTeX Style .

The general form of an entry in a .bib file is:

               @type_of_entry{BibTeX_key, required_fields[, optional_fields]}

The entry types are: @article, @book, @booklet, @electronic, @inbook, @incollection, @inproceedings, @proceedings, @manual, @mastersthesis, @patent, @periodical, @phdthesis, @standard, @techreport, @unpublished, and @misc.

Other entry types:

- Private communications: use @ misc with the note private communication , personal communication or private correspondence ;

- Software: use @ electronic or cite the software manual;

- Laws and regulations: use @misc .

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Export References from Databases in .bib Format

Most databases allow the exporting references in .bib format.

We strongly recommend that you check the quality of the exported references and make any necessary corrections . When exporting references from more than one database, be sure to eliminate duplicates.

In  Compendex :

• Perform your search and select relevant references.

• Open the file with a TeX editor and correct the references.
• Often, exported references have numerical BibTeX keys. Rename the BibTeX keys, for example in the format AuthorYear, to be able to distinguish the references. For example, replace @inproceedings{20210409828055 , with @inproceedings{li2020 ,.
• It is possible to use this .bib file directly with a LaTeX document or to copy-paste these references into your master .bib file.

In  IEEE Xplore :

• Click  Export ➞ Citation ➞ Format: BibTeX , Include: Citation & Abstract ➞ Export.
• Open the file with a TeX editor and correct the references.
• Often, exported references have numerical BibTeX keys. Rename the BibTeX keys , for example in the format AuthorYear, to be able to distinguish the references. For example, replace @inproceedings{20210409828055 , with @inproceedings{li2020 ,.

IEEEtran Style

The IEEEtran style files are maintained by par Michael Shell. This guide is based, inter alia, on his articles:

• How to Use the IEEEtran BibTeX Style
• How to Use the IEEEtran LaTeX Class

IEEEtran style in French @ Polytechnique: IEEEtran_francais.bst .

Recommendations for .bib Files

The references in the .bib files should include as much information as possible. 

At present, the DOI is not supported by the IEEEtran style, but it will probably be in the future. If your document has a DOI, include it in the reference. In the examples below, the DOI field was added in all the references that have a DOI.

Click here to see examples of entries for several types of documents (in English)

See other types of documents in the file MyReferences.bib (more under LaTeX → How to create a bibliography).

For other examples, consult the file IEEEexample.bib of IEEEtran style.

IEEE Abbreviations for Journals and Conferences

NOTE: Since there are no official IEEE abbreviations for other publishers' journals and conferences and since the ISO abbreviations are not the same as the IEEE abbreviations, we recommend that you use the full names of journals and conferences for your dissertation or thesis :

journal = {Artificial Intelligence Review}, booktitle = {14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering ({CSMR})},

Conversely, use the IEEE abbreviations if you would like to publish with IEEE.

The files IEEEabrv.bib and IEEEfull.bib are included in the IEEEtran package.

They make possible to enter in the field journal of a reference a certain string and obtain the abbreviated or the full title of the respective IEEE journal in the reference.  For example, for journal = IEEE_J_SPL , the title will be displayed:

• With IEEEabrv: IEEE Signal Process. Lett.
• With IEEEfull: IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Both files should be in the same folder as the document .tex in which they are used.

Export References from EndNote in .bib Format

Select the references in EndNote (with CTRL+clic and/or SHIFT+clic) → File → Export... → Type : Rich Text Format (.rtf) → Output style : Select Another Style... → BibTeX Export → Choose → Save.

Correct these references and copy-paste them in your .bib file.

Guides and Tutorials

• BibT E Xing The original documentation written by the creator of BibTeX, Oren Patashnik.

• Tame the BeaST: The B to X of BibTEX Guide by Nicolas Markey.
• A BibT E X Guide via Examples Guide by Ki-Joo Kim.
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BibTeX field: type

How to use the type field in bibtex.

The type field is used to store more descriptive name of the type of work. E.g. for a techreport entry it can be "Government Report", while for the phdthesis type it can be a PhD dissertation.

How the type field is used in BibTeX entry types

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Bib file format

A .bib file is a text file (database) containing publication references formatted in the bibtex format. It can have anywhere from one to thousands of  entries. Examples of different bibliographic sources are:

All major reference managers and scholarly search engines are able to export references in the bibtex file format. These new entries can be added to an existing .bib file using simple cut and paste.

Since bibtex references do not lose their validity, many researchers maintain a .bib file of references they have cited in the past. Using the bibtex manuscript command they can select references for their upcoming paper without having to start a new bibliography from scratch.

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