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\name{bibentry}
\alias{bibentry}
\alias{print.bibentry}
\title{Bibliography Entries}
\description{
  Functionality for representing and manipulating bibliographic
  information in enhanced BibTeX style.
}
\usage{
bibentry(bibtype, textVersion = NULL, header = NULL, footer = NULL,
         key = NULL, ..., other = list(),
         mheader = NULL, mfooter = NULL)
\method{print}{bibentry}(x, style = "text", .bibstyle, ...)
}
\arguments{
  \item{bibtype}{a character string with a BibTeX entry type.
    See \bold{Entry Types} for details.
  }
  \item{textVersion}{a character string with a text representation of
    the reference to optionally be employed for printing.}
  \item{header}{a character string with optional header text.}
  \item{footer}{a character string with optional footer text.}
  \item{key}{a character string giving the citation key for the entry.}
  \item{...}{for \code{bibentry}: arguments of the form
    \code{\var{tag}=\var{value}} giving the fields of the entry, with
    \var{tag} and \var{value} the name and value of the field,
    respectively.  Arguments with empty values are dropped.
    See \bold{Entry Fields} for details.

    For the \code{print} method, extra parameters to pass to the
    renderer.}
  \item{other}{a list of arguments as in \code{...} (useful in
    particular for fields named the same as formals of
    \code{bibentry}).}
  \item{mheader}{a character string with optional \dQuote{outer} header
    text.}
  \item{mfooter}{a character string with optional \dQuote{outer} footer
    text.}
  \item{x}{an object inheriting from class \code{"bibentry"}.}
  \item{style}{an optional character string specifying the print style.
    If present, must be a unique abbreviation (with case ignored) of the available
    styles, see \bold{Details}.}
  \item{.bibstyle}{a character string naming a bibliography style.}
}
\details{
  The bibentry objects created by \code{bibentry} can represent an
  arbitrary positive number of references.  One can use \code{c()} to
  combine bibentry objects, and hence in particular build a multiple
  reference object from single reference ones.  Alternatively, one can
  use \code{bibentry} to directly create a multiple reference object by
  \dQuote{vectorizing} the given arguments, i.e., use character vectors
  instead of character strings.

  The \code{\link{print}} method for bibentry objects provides a choice
  between seven different styles:
  plain text (style \code{"text"}),
  BibTeX (\code{"Bibtex"}),
  a mixture of plain text and BibTeX as traditionally used for citations
  (\code{"citation"}),
  HTML (\code{"html"}),
  LaTeX (\code{"latex"}),
  R code (\code{"R"}),
  and a simple copy of the \code{textVersion} elements (style
  \code{"textVersion"}).
  The \code{"text"}, \code{"html"} and \code{"latex"} styles make use
  of the \code{.bibstyle} argument using the \code{\link{bibstyle}}
  function.  When printing bibentry objects in citation style, a
  \code{header}/\code{footer} for each item can be displayed as well as
  a \code{mheader}/\code{mfooter} for the whole vector of references.

  The \code{\link{print}} method is based on a \code{\link{format}}
  method which provides the same styles, and for formatting as R code
  a choice between giving a character vector with one \code{bibentry()}
  call for each bibentry (as commonly used in \file{CITATION} files), or
  a character string with one collapsed call, obtained by combining the
  individual calls with \code{c()} if there is more than one bibentry.
  This can be controlled by setting the option \code{collapse} to
  \code{FALSE} (default) or \code{TRUE}, respectively.  (Printing in R
  style always collapses to a single call.)  Further, for the
  \code{"citation"} style, \code{format()}'s optional argument
  \code{citation.bibtex.max} (with default
  \code{\link{getOption}("citation.bibtex.max")} which defaults to 1)
  determines for up to how many citation bibentries text style is shown
  together with with bibtex, automatically.

  It is possible to subscript bibentry objects by their keys (which are
  used for character subscripts if the names are \code{NULL}).

  There is also a \code{\link{toBibtex}} method for direct conversion to
  BibTeX.
}
\value{
  \code{bibentry} produces an object of class \code{"bibentry"}.
}
\section{Entry Types}{
  \code{bibentry} creates \code{"bibentry"} objects, which are modeled
  after BibTeX entries.  The entry should be a valid BibTeX entry type,
  e.g.,
  \describe{
    \item{Article:}{An article from a journal or magazine.}
    \item{Book:}{A book with an explicit publisher.}
    \item{InBook:}{A part of a book, which may be a chapter (or section
      or whatever) and/or a range of pages.}
    \item{InCollection:}{A part of a book having its own title.}
    \item{InProceedings:}{An article in a conference proceedings.}
    \item{Manual:}{Technical documentation like a software manual.}
    \item{MastersThesis:}{A Master's thesis.}
    \item{Misc:}{Use this type when nothing else fits.}
    \item{PhdThesis:}{A PhD thesis.}
    \item{Proceedings:}{The proceedings of a conference.}
    \item{TechReport:}{A report published by a school or other
      institution, usually numbered within a series.}
    \item{Unpublished:}{A document having an author and title, but not
      formally published.}
  }
}
\section{Entry Fields}{
  The \code{\dots} argument of \code{bibentry} can be any number of
  BibTeX fields, including
  \describe{
    \item{address:}{The address of the publisher or other type of
      institution.}

    \item{author:}{The name(s) of the author(s), either
      as a character string in the format described in the LaTeX book,
      or a \code{\link{person}} object.}

    \item{booktitle:}{Title of a book, part of which is being cited.}
    \item{chapter:}{A chapter (or section or whatever) number.}

    \item{editor:}{Name(s) of editor(s), same format as \code{author}.}

    \item{institution:}{The publishing institution of a technical report.}

    \item{journal:}{A journal name.}

    \item{note:}{Any additional information that can help the reader.
      The first word should be capitalized.}

    \item{number:}{The number of a journal, magazine, technical report,
      or of a work in a series.}

    \item{pages:}{One or more page numbers or range of numbers.}

    \item{publisher:}{The publisher's name.}

    \item{school:}{The name of the school where a thesis was written.}

    \item{series:}{The name of a series or set of books.}

    \item{title:}{The work's title.}

    \item{volume:}{The volume of a journal or multi-volume book.}

    \item{year:}{The year of publication.}
  }
}
\seealso{
  \code{\link{person}}
}
\examples{
## R reference
rref <- bibentry(
   bibtype = "Manual",
   title = "R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing",
   author = person("R Core Team"),
   organization = "R Foundation for Statistical Computing",
   address = "Vienna, Austria",
   year = 2013,
   url = "http://www.R-project.org/")

## Different printing styles
print(rref)
print(rref, style = "Bibtex")
print(rref, style = "citation")
print(rref, style = "html")
print(rref, style = "latex")
print(rref, style = "R")

## References for boot package and associated book
bref <- c(
   bibentry(
     bibtype = "Manual",
     title = "boot: Bootstrap R (S-PLUS) Functions",
     author = c(
       person("Angelo", "Canty", role = "aut",
         comment = "S original"),
       person(c("Brian", "D."), "Ripley", role = c("aut", "trl", "cre"),
         comment = "R port, author of parallel support",
         email = "ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk")
     ),
     year = "2012",
     note = "R package version 1.3-4",
     url = "http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=boot",
     key = "boot-package"
   ),

   bibentry(
     bibtype = "Book",
     title = "Bootstrap Methods and Their Applications",
     author = as.person("Anthony C. Davison [aut], David V. Hinkley [aut]"),
     year = "1997",
     publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
     address = "Cambridge",
     isbn = "0-521-57391-2",
     url = "http://statwww.epfl.ch/davison/BMA/",
     key = "boot-book"
   )
)

## Combining and subsetting
c(rref, bref)
bref[2]
bref["boot-book"]

## Extracting fields
bref$author
bref[1]$author
bref[1]$author[2]$email

## Convert to BibTeX
toBibtex(bref)

## Format in R style
## One bibentry() call for each bibentry:
writeLines(paste(format(bref, "R"), collapse = "\n\n"))
## One collapsed call:
writeLines(format(bref, "R", collapse = TRUE))
}
\keyword{ utilities }
\keyword{ documentation }