The 14 BibTeX entry types

Possibly the most difficult aspect of using BibTeX to manage bibliographies is deciding what entry type to use for a reference source. We list all the 14 BibTeX entry types including their description on when to use.

article

An article from a journal, magazine, newspaper, or periodical.

``` @articleCitekeyArticle, author = "P. J. Cohen", title = "The independence of the continuum hypothesis", journal = "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", year = 1963, volume = "50", number = "6", pages = "1143--1148", > ```
book
A book where the publisher is clearly identifiable.
``` @bookCitekeyBook, author = "Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky", title = "Classical mechanics: the theoretical minimum", publisher = "Penguin Random House", address = "New York, NY", year = 2014 > ```
booklet
A printed work that is bound, but does not have a clearly identifiable publisher or supporting institution.
``` @bookletCitekeyBooklet, title = "Canoe tours in weden", author = "Maria Swetla", howpublished = "Distributed at the Stockholm Tourist Office", month = jul, year = 2015 > ```
conference
An article that has been included in conference proceedings. See inproceedings for details.
inbook
A section, such as a chapter, or a page range within a book.
``` @inbookCitekeyInbook, author = "Lisa A. Urry and Michael L. Cain and Steven A. Wasserman and Peter V. Minorsky and Jane B. Reece", title = "Photosynthesis", booktitle = "Campbell Biology", year = "2016", publisher = "Pearson", address = "New York, NY", pages = "187--221" > ```
incollection
A titled section of a book. Such as a short story within the larger collection of short stories that make up the book.
``` @incollectionCitekeyIncollection, author = "Shapiro, Howard M.", editor = "Hawley, Teresa S. and Hawley, Robert G.", title = "Flow Cytometry: The Glass Is Half Full", booktitle = "Flow Cytometry Protocols", year = 2018, publisher = "Springer", address = "New York, NY", pages = "1--10" > ```
inproceedings
A paper that has been published in conference proceedings. The usage of conference and inproceedings is the same. The conference entry was included for Scribe compatibility.
``` @inproceedingsCitekeyInproceedings, author = "Holleis, Paul and Wagner, Matthias and Koolwaaij, Johan", title = "Studying mobile context-aware social services in the wild", booktitle = "Proc. of the 6th Nordic Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction", series = "NordiCHI", year = 2010, pages = "207--216", publisher = "ACM", address = "New York, NY" > ```