There were 3 lists in this file that specify the format of the entry. I give now pointers to webpages with bibTeX documentation. If someone has suggestions for better pointers, please let me know.
Here's the page I based this document on:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html
The first one specifies the types of documents accepted by bibTeX. Since we are creating bibTeX entries from our VISWEB entries, we are going to stick with those. The type of document should be specified under the field DOCTYPE.
The second list gives the accepted fields for each entry. These are taken directly from bibTeX format. Although we have some extra for VISWEB bookkeeping. ALL VISWEB FIELDS ARE NEEDED IN EVERY ENTRY. bibTeX fields depend on the type of document, and that's what the 3rd list is about. ONLY ONE CONTINUOUS LINE PER FIELD (discover the beauty of wrap-around text in emacs!!)
The third list specifies what fields are needed for each type of document in bibTeX. Some of the fields in the second list don't appear in the third one.
Additions and corrections welcome!!!
DOCTYPE: article
AUTHOR: Frederick P. Brooks
TITLE: What's Real About Virtual Reality?
JOURNAL: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
VOLUME: 19
NUMBER: 6
PAGES: 16--27
MONTH: November-December
YEAR: 1999
ISSN: 0272-1716
URL: http://dlib.computer.org/cg/books/cg1999/pdf/g6016.pdf
ADDED-BY: $daf
DATE-ADDED: Thu Mar 20 23:45:17 2001
DOCTYPE: inproceedings
AUTHOR: Serge Limoges and Colin Ware and William Knight
TITLE: Displaying Correlations Using Position, Motion, Point Size or Point Colour
PAGES: 262--265
BOOKTITLE: Proceedings of Graphics Interface'89
YEAR: 1989
MONTH: June
LOCATION: London, Ontario
ADDED-BY: $daf
DATE-ADDED: Thu Oct 15 09:23:20 2000
More examples in /map/gfx0/common/visweb/bib
The type of document should be specified under the field DOCTYPE. Should be all lowercase.
article
book
booklet
conference
inbook
incollection
inproceedings
manual
mastersthesis
misc
phdthesis
proceedings
techreport
unpublished
FIELDS. All capitals followed by ':'
DOCTYPE
Specified before
ADDED-BY
Who created the entry
DATE-ADDED
When was the entry created. The format should be: Thu May 16 14:29:21 2002
STATUS
Should be one of the following:
published
inreview
inpress
unpublished
unknown
THEME
Check out http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/vis/lists/themes.html for the names of themes (use the las word of the theme's link without '.html')
PROJECT
Check out http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/vis/lists/projects.html for the names of projects (use the las word of the project's link without '.html')
ADDRESS
ANNOTE
AUTHOR
BOOKTITLE
CHAPTER
CROSSREF
EDITION
EDITOR
HOWPUBLISHED
INSTITUTION
JOURNAL
KEY
MONTH
NOTE
NUMBER
ORGANIZATION
PAGES
PUBLISHER
SCHOOL
SERIES
TITLE
TYPE
VOLUME
YEAR
AFFILIATION
ABSTRACT
CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT
ISBN
ISSN
KEYWORDS
LANGUAGE
LOCATION
LCCN
MRNUMBER
PRICE
SIZE
URL
FIELDS FOR EACH DOCTYPE (for bibTeX only)
Check out:
http://www.oreilly.com/homepages/jasper/texhelp/bibtx-7.html