A LaTeX file, bibtex_example.tex:

\documentclass[12pt]{article} \bibliographystyle{plain} % -- THIS \begin{document} \title{Mathematics Examples} \author{Simon Hood} \maketitle Leslie Lamport's book \cite{ll:latexbook} is the obvious place to start, but is probably better as the second or third place. A better place is {\it Essential \LaTeX} \cite{jw:essential}. % -- THIS \bibliography{tex_resources} % -- THIS \end{document}