[R] NEWBIE: @BOOK help?

[Douglas Bates]

On 2/8/07, Zembower, Kevin <kzembowe at jhuccp.org> wrote:
> In Henric's recent post, he included this output:
>
> @BOOK{R:Harrell:2001,
>   AUTHOR = {Frank E. Harrell},
>   TITLE = {Regression Modeling Strategies, with Applications to
>                   Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic
>                   Regression},
>   PUBLISHER = {Springer},
>   YEAR = 2001,
>   NOTE = {ISBN 0-387-95232-2},
>   URL = {http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/RmS}
> }
>
> Can someone tell me how this is generated? I've noticed this in a few
> recent posts. I attempted:

I'm not sure what you mean by "how this is generated".  The format is
for a bibliographic reference system called BibTeX associated with the
LaTeX text processing language.

Most BibTeX users have built up a reference database by adding the
entries by hand.  Editors like emacs have special modes to facilitate
entering this information.

Searching on the CTAN.org (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) web site
may give some links to systems that can generate BibTeX reference
databases automatically.  On Linux the tellico bibliographic database
manager can search commercial sites like amazon.com and download
information about specific books from there, then export it in BibTeX
format.  I haven't tried it myself for books so I can't say how well
it works.  I have used it for extracting information on movies from
imdb.com and it does a good job on that.