> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://emory.gitbook.io/ai-research-practicum/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://emory.gitbook.io/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/references.md).

# References

## Bibliography Style

Our [template](https://www.overleaf.com/read/yjnvxcjrgghv) uses `acl_natbib.bst` to format the bibliography, indicated in `acl.sty`:

```latex
\bibliographystyle{acl_natbib}
```

## Bib Entries

Our [template](https://www.overleaf.com/read/yjnvxcjrgghv) uses `custom.bib`, is indicated at the bottom of `acl_latex.tex`, for adding references to be included in the paper:

```latex
\bibliography{custom}
```

Any preprint must be checked whether or not it has been published to a peer-reviewed venue. If it has, use the reference from the peer-reviewed venue instead of the preprint source such as arXiv.

Keep the following conventions to add entries in the bib file:

\- For `key`, make sure there is no duplicate.

\- For `title`, surround the text with curly braces; otherwise, the title will be lowercased in print:

```
@inproceedings{marcus-etal-1993-building,
    Title = {{Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank}},
```

```
@inproceedings{marcus-etal-1993-building,
    Title = "{Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank}",
```

\- For `booktitle` or `journal`, do not use acronyms but the full venue names. For instance, the following is good:

```
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
```

whereas the following is bad:

```
Booktitle = {Proceedings of ACL},
```

Also, do not append the acronym in parentheses at the end of the venue name. For instance, remove `(ACL)` from the following::

```
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
```

Use the `series` field rather to indicate the acronym.

\- For `series`, use the format `acronym'year` (e.g., `ACL'20`), where `acronym` is the acronym of the venue and `year` is the last two digits of the published year.

\- For `pages`, put two dashes between the first and the last pages (e.g., `1--10`).

\- For `url`, add the link to the original source of the paper (e.g., [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org)).

## Citations

Use `\citet` when the reference is used in context:

```latex
\citet{devlin-etal-2019-bert} introduced BERT.
BERT was introduced by \cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert}.
```

Use `\cite` when the reference is used outside of the context:

```latex
BERT is a transformer-based contextualized embedding model \cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert}.
```

Use `\citealt` when the reference is used inside of parentheses:

```latex
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT; \citealt{devlin-etal-2019-bert}) is used to generate token embeddings.
```