Genetic Programming Bibliography WebBibTeX help
This file documents the Internet WebBibTeX interface for adding entries to the Genetic Programming Bibliography.

The process is semi automated. Using WebBibTeX you can add BibTeX entries. They are then batched together and added to the bibliography on an aperiodic basis. Remind me if your new don't appear after some months.

General Remarks

BibTeX entries refer a single paper, a whole book or proceedings which may contain a number of chapters or conference papers. What type of entry you are created is specified by the reference type.

For each type of entry BibTeX defines a number of fields within each entry (eg author, title). Depending on the reference type some will be required and others will be optional. The genetic programming bibliography (in common with other bibliographies) defines a number of additional fields (eg url, keywords, abstract). These are ignored by BibTeX. However they can be used in automatic searches.

Database

Only addition to the genetic programming bibliography is supported.

Reference Type

The reference types are article (article in journal or magazine), book, booklet, inbook (part of a book without a title), incollection (part of a book with a title, eg a chapter within an edited volume), inproceedings, manual, misc (when nothing else fits), msthesis (masters thesis), phdthesis, proceedings, techreport, unpublished. See LaTeX user's guide and reference manual.

You can select or change the reference type of your entry at any time. After changing the reference type, press the Add the Entry button, to get a correct form. The fields that you had entered will be preserved in the new form, however you will lose the fields that do not exist in the new reference type. e.g. if you fill in the title and the journal fields of an article form, and than switch to a book form you will lose the journal field contents.

ENTRY Fields:

abstract

Abstract of paper/book/chapter etc. A copy of the abstract given in the document.

address

Usually the address of a publisher or other type of organization. Put information in this field only if it helps the reader find the thing---for example you should omit the address of a major publisher entirely. For a PROCEEDINGS or an INPROCEEDINGS, however, it's the address of the conference; for those two entry types, include the publisher's or organization's address, if necessary, in the publisher_address field.

author

Name(s) of author(s), in BibTeX name format.
Name1 Surname1 and Name2 Surname2
Due to crude parsing, proper BibTeX formatted names may cause the automatic key generation to go wrong. In which case enter your own key directly.

booktitle

Book title when the thing being referenced isn't the whole book. For book entries, the title field should be used instead.

chapter

Chapter (or section or whatever) number.

edition

Edition of a book---should be an ordinal (e.g., "Second").

editor

Name(s) of editor(s), in BibTeX name format. If there is also an author field, then the editor field should be for the book or collection that the work appears in.

email

To help the reader contact the author. Probbaly best to leave blank, unless you have an efficient way of filtering unwanted, spam, emails.

howpublished

How something strange has been published (begins sentence).

institution

Sponsoring institution of a technical report.

ISBN

The International Standard Book Number. Eg. 0-262-11170-5.

journal

Journal name
Note that you can either enter the name of the journal or select it from the selection list under the input box. The selection list has the default value "Journal written above", which tells the script to get the written journal. However it might be easier to choose it from the list if it exist. If it does not, write your journal for the first time, and it will appear in the list on your next entry form.

key

Labeling, and cross-referencing key
You can enter the key for your entry by changing the Key field from its default automatic value. If you leave the Key field at its default value i.e. automatic, WBT will automatically generate the key for your entry. To generate the Key, it takes the first three letters of the surnames of the first two authors and appends the last two digits of the year. e.g. 
author: Dario Floreano and Francesco Mondada
year  : 1996
generated key: FloMon96

author: Racz, Janus and Dubrawski, Arthur
year  : 1995
generated key: RacDub95

author: Chatila, Raja
year  : 1995
generated key: Cha95
Unfortunately it doesn't cope with all BibTex formats for names. If you have errors like "Your Entry is appended to an existing entry" its probably better to enter your own key.

month

Eg 7-11 July

note

To help the reader find a reference (begins sentence). Typical usages include "Forthcoming", "Submitted to", "In press". This is a field that is used by BibTeX! Please do not enter your own "note"s here, it will appear in your references. Instead use notes.

notes

non-standard notes eg links to related documents (just give key), abbrieviation of conferences, what you thought of it, etc.

number

Number of a journal or technical report, or of a work in a series.

organization

Organization sponsoring a conference (or publishing a manual); if the editor (or author) is empty, and if the organization produces an awkward label or cross reference, you should put appropriately condensed organization information in the key field as well.

pages

Page number or numbers (use `--' to separate a range, use `+' to indicate pages following that don't form a simple range).

publisher

Publisher name.

publisher_address

Address of publisher. Put information in this field only if it helps the reader find the thing. For example you should omit the address of a major publisher entirely. Identical to address however a separate field is added for PROCEEDINGS or an INPROCEEDINGS, where the location of the conference is given in the address field. (Alternatively, if essential, added the address to the publisher or organization fields (which are not ignored by BibTeX)).

school

School name (for theses).

series

The name of a series or set of books. An individual book will will also have it's own title.

size

Size of document. E.g. "6 pages".

title

The title of the thing you're referred to.

type

Type of a Techreport (e.g., "Research Note") to be used instead of the default "Technical Report"; or, similarly, the type of a thesis; or of a part of a book.

volume

The volume number of a journal or multivolume work.

year

The year should contain only numerals (technically, it should end with four numerals, after purification; doesn't a begin sentence).

keywords

Used to denote the subject(s) of the paper/book/etc Used for automatic indexing. GP entries must have at least the keyword "genetic programming".

summary

Not supported. Ignored by BibTeX.

url

Internet address of the document. Used by bib2html.

What is WebBibTeX (WBT)?

WBT is a perl script that creates a user interface for gathering and maintaining BibTeX entries on the Internet.

What is BibTeX?

BibTeX is a program that manages citations and references to books, papers, journal articles, etc. It is intended for use with LaTex. (LaTeX is a tool for writing professional looking papers). However the GP bibliography supports other ways of doings things: e.g. Endnote and refer. More information at Wikipedia on BibTeX, LaTeX.

What are WBT's features?

This document was modified by W. B. Langdon 19 December 2000 from a version updated at 11/6/1996 by Erol Sahin. (Last update 28 Oct 2023.)