[OS X TeX] thebibliography - arXiv

[Berend Hasselman]

On 26-04-2011, at 17:25, Vic Norton wrote:

> I am trying to prepare a TeX submission to arXiv.org for the first time.
> The paper is now on my home site as
>   http://vic.norton.name/finance-math/notionalPortfolios.pdf
> 
> I want to send the paper as one LaTeX file plus a couple of PDF images,
> but I am unclear as to how to incorporate the biography, which consists
> of only two references.
> 
> In the current preamble I use
>  \usepackage[style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
> and, in the external BibTeX bibliography file, the references read
> 
> @book{Markowitz:1987wd,
> 	Author = {Harry M. Markowitz},
> 	Date-Added = {2009-08-17 08:46:07 -0400},
> 	Date-Modified = {2009-08-17 11:22:27 -0400},
> 	Keywords = {{portfolio management} {mathematical models}},
> 	Publisher = {Blackwell},
> 	Title = {Mean-Variance Analysis in Portfolio Choice and Capital Markets},
> 	Year = {1987}}
> 
> @online{Norton:2010fk,
> 	Author = {Vic Norton},
> 	Date-Added = {2009-08-17 08:46:07 -0400},
> 	Date-Modified = {2011-04-25 09:02:59 -0400},
> 	Keywords = {{security returns}},
> 	Month = {05},
> 	Note = {Unpublished manuscript},
> 	Read = {Yes},
> 	Title = {Adjusted closing prices},
> 	Url = {http://vic.norton.name/finance-math/adjustedClosingPrices.pdf},
> 	Year = {2010},
> 	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://vic.norton.name/finance-math/adjustedClosingPrices.pdf}}
> 
> How do I incorporate this information into a single LaTeX document that
> ends with
> 
> \begin{thebibliography}{2}
> 
> \bibitem{Markowitz:1987wd}
>   ...
> 
> \bibitem{Norton:2010fk}
>   ...
> 
> \end{thebibliography}
> \end{document}


Assuming you want the literal text of the .bib in your text, you can use the package fancyvrb.

Put \usepackage{fancyvrb} in the preamble and insert \VerbatimInput{filename} where you want the stuff to be placed. Page 20 of fancyvrb's documentation gives examples of how to configure the output.


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