This page collects the most often used BibTeX skeletons, following the guidelines summarized in BibTeX guidelines. They help not to forget filling any important field.

Journal article

@article{ ,
   author      = {},
   title       = {},
   journal     = {},
   volume      = {},
   number      = {},
   year        = {},
   issn        = {},
   pages       = {},
   doi         = {},
   publisher   = {},
}

• Use preferably the following format for the author: {Family, First and Family, Second}
• The publisher is typically not shown for journal articles.
• The doi should be in the following format: 10.1234/123456

Paper in proceedings

@incollection{ ,
   author      = {},
   title       = {},
   editor      = {},
   booktitle   = {},
   OPTseries   = {},
   OPTvolume   = {},
   year        = {},
   publisher   = {},
   pages       = {},
   doi         = {},
}

• Please use the next one for papers published in LNCS books.
• If there are no page numbers in the proceedings (often in IEEE proceedings), DO NOT put pages = {1-10} for a 10-pages-long paper, instead omit the pages line from the entry.
• Do not put conference names here! TACAS'99 is not a series.
• The doi should be in the following format: 10.1234/123456

Paper in LNCS (!)

@incollection{ ,
   author      = {},
   title       = {},
   editor      = {},
   booktitle   = {},
   series      = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   volume      = {},
   year        = {},
   publisher   = {Springer},
   pages       = {},
   doi         = {},
}

• The booktitle should be something like Computer Aided Verification or Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. See the following examples:
  • DO USE: Integrated Formal Methods
  • DO USE (in LNCS papers): iFM 2016 (see Springer author’s guidelines (Sect. 2.8))
  • DO NOT USE: iFM
  • DO NOT USE: Proc. of iFM
  • DO NOT USE: Integrated Formal Methods - 12th International Conference, IFM 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 1-5, 2016, Proceedings
• Try to use the publisher in an consistent way (Springer vs. Springer-Verlag vs. Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
• The doi should be in the following format: 10.1234/123456

PhD Thesis

@phdthesis{ ,
   author      = {},
   title       = {},
   school      = {},
   year        = {},
   OPTisbn     = {},
   url         = {},
}

• As PhD theses are not that easily accessible, it is preferred to include the url.

MSc Thesis

@mastersthesis{ ,
    author      = {},
    title       = {},
    school      = {},
    year        = {},
    OPTtype     = {M.Sc. Thesis},
    url         = {},
}

• In some styles by default @mastersthesis entries are shown as MA Thesis, use type to fix this.

Book

@book{ ,
   author      = {},
   title       = {},
   publisher   = {},
   address     = {},
   year        = {},
   isbn        = {},
}