bst File Which Handles Multiple Authors (reduces it to et al)

This bst file seems to handle the multiple author issue (listing the first three authors and then compacting the rest with et al).

http://www.biology.emory.edu/Antia/pjohnson/bst/mbe.bst

bst styles. Bibtex different styles

This website is pretty comprehensive (see the pdf file). You can see which styles produce what type of bibliography, e..g maybe you want references sorted by the order they appear in your paper.

http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibstyles.html

CV with latex and bibtex (vitae). Curriculum Vitae

One issue is creating CV's with bibtex, there is an easy hack which is simply to use the .bbl file and then paste this into your latex file. Also you want to use the multbib package to allow multiple styles.

I think this is the best:
http://phaselockfel.blogspot.com/2009/03/prepare-resume-using-latex-and-bibtex.html

There is some good advice here:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4485/how-should-one-use-write18-with-bibtex

http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/resume-writing-example-latex-template-linux-curriculum-vitae-professional-cv-layout-format-text-p54/

http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos/create-a-curriculum-vitae-using-latex/

http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos/create-a-curriculum-vitae-using-latex/

bibtex from Google Scholar

How do I import a Bibtex citation from Google Scholar into my .bib file?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080711124719AAr8dyK

Best bibtex blog entry

Pretty much you should simply ignore my blog and go to Yang Feng's blog which covers similar material.

In fact, his post regarding bibtex is very comprehensive and in particular takes care of details like the shortcite option when there are a long list of authors:

http://yangfeng.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/reference-sheet-for-natbib-usage/

Bib-It: Generate your own bst file

I really need to check this out
http://bib-it.sourceforge.net/

It apparently offers a friendly user-interface which allows you to generate your own .bst file. The .bst file then controls your bibtex files.

AstroNat: Bibtex for Astronomy Journals (extends to other Science journals)

Setup: I work in parasitology and many of the parasitology journals require submission of .doc files. I use a commercial software (GrindEq) to turn my .tex file to .doc. But I think Baker's code offers a free solution? (I haven't tried it out yet)

Baker has put together an interesting package of LaTeX, BibTeX and Perl software. I think that this is the goal:
1. You want to use the functionality of latex/bibtex
2. You are submitting to a journal which does not allow you to submit separate .tex and .bib files when they want your raw files (this happens with many science journals)

Baker's solution:
1. Do everything first with latex/bibtex functionality. Output .tex,.bbl file
2. The run a perl script on the .tex and .bbl file and output an electronic copy of your paper which you can submit.

Obvious Question: I haven't tried this out yet, so I don't know what the output file formats are?

Anyway here is his link:
http://ads.harvard.edu/pubs/bibtex/astronat/doc/html/astronat_toc.html

Additional side notes of interest. One topic that Baker covers is the max author command to control how many authors you display in your references before et al is used. This is extremely important when referencing biology articles which often involve 10^6 authors.

I plan to post on the question of max author in general.

Bibtex Tutorial, with bibpunct

Roberts provides a wonderful introduction (and more) to Bibtex
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial3.html

In particular, I am glad that he discusses the use of the function:
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,}

Statisticians might be familiar with this, because you need to mess around with bibpunct to get the right citation format for JASA articles.

Latex: Online Tutorials

Roberts provides a wonderful set of latex tutorials. This is definitely one of the best I've come across:
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/

Automatically Generating Bibtex Entries

There are number of helpful tools to automatically generate bibtex entries for easy inclusion in LaTeX articles. My favorite is mathscinet because of the option to batch convert records to bibtex entries.

Mathscinet is limited to mathematics and statistics journals for the most part and it is of course important to be able to get entries from science journals. I have found two options for interfacing with Pubmed to generate bibtex entries.

1.This option is nice you simply need to input a list of PMID's separated by commas and it generates the corresponding bibtex entries:
http://software.bioinformatics.uwaterloo.ca/med2bib/
2. Hubmed: http://www.hubmed.org/

The wikipedia article about bibtex is actually pretty good and it lists other sources for generating bibtex entries, I have not experimented with these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX

Several journal websites allow you to download bibtex entries. In fact, I have come across at least one website which allows you to download an article's entire bibliography in bibtex form. I will start compiling a list of such websites and post it soon.