Physics: Writing & citing

LaTeX and BibTeX

• a freely available typesetting system that produces professional looking publications
• useful for writing documents that contain mathematical formulas or equations
• create documents with LaTeX using an editor or just using a plain text editor
• prepare your text using special commands to produce effects such as heading styles, bold or italic emphasis, mathematical symbols etc.
• files are formatted as .tex files (do not use accents or spaces in the file name)
• the source code generates printable PDFs that comply with editorial standards
• LaTeX Project
• BibTeX Project
• An updated version of LaTeX is called MikTeX

Resources

• LaTeX and Friends - M.R.C. van Dongen ISBN: 3642238165 Publication Year: 2012 ebook
• Digital Typography using LaTeX - Syropoulos, A; Tsolomitis, A; Sofroniou, N ISBN: 0387952179 Publication Year: 2003 ebook
• YouTube videos
  • So you want to learn LaTex?
  • Learning LaTex in 5 minutes
  • Beginners LaTex Tutorial