More about the BibTEX Bibliography on Accelerator Physics

The bulk of the data base has been generated by a semi-automatic conversion script, written in Mathematica, producing a genuine BibTeX output from the results of a SPIRES search. The generation of BibTeX records for conference proceedings is particularly painful and for this I have extensively used both SLAC-SPIRES: Conferences and the CERN library catalog.

The bibliography contains the results of general keyword searches, e.g. on "impedance", "Landau damping", "accelerator programs" or "beam-beam", and of searches for a few (arbitrarily) selected authors. Therefore don't be deceived if you don't find any of your publications there. However, please let me know if you find a mistake in a bibliographic reference.

No matter the output format you chose, the document you get when you search the data base is a valid BibTeX file, with additional HTML code to control the way it is displayed by the web browser. It consists of records separated by blank lines (\n\n): each record starts with HTML markup for the bibliographic item and is followed by the corresponding BibTeX description.

The HTML code has been generated using the latex2html translator, after running BibTeX with a special style file that includes url addresses as "\htmladdnormallink" directives and copies all relevant fields for a given record as "rawhtml". In this way I get directly the mixed HTML/BibTeX database for bibliographic search. The drawback is that BibTeX cross-references are no longer available: as far as I know there is no public domain software capable of searching a genuine BibTeX data base containing cross-references. Please let me know if you are aware of such software.


21 May 1998 Francesco.Ruggiero@cern.ch