BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY FORMAT 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is  the format  for the bibliographies  in this directory, bib.CS
and bib.ME.  The bibliography is just a text file with the entries are
arranged by first author.

For   creating an  entry,   you need  to read   the  next section very
carefully.  If you use  emacs, you may find  some helpful tools in the
description at the end of the  file.  


SAMPLE ENTRY
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Aggarwal, Alok; J. Chang; and Chee Yap; 1985.
COMPUTATIONAL-GEOMETRY 2D::ENCLOSURE POLYGON OPTIM    IBM-TJW/NYU-Courant
    Minimum area circumscribing polygons,
    NYU Courant Report No. 160, Robotics Report No. 42, May, 1985.
{
{ An efficient, O(n logn logk) algorithm is presented for solving
{ the general case of circumscribing a convex n-gon with a minimum
{ area k-gon.  The algorithm makes extensive use of DePano's Lemma
{ [Depano, 1984]:  Any minimal circumscribing k-gon must have k-1
{ edges flush with the polygon and all edges of the k-gon must be
{ balanced.  - Dian Lopez 11/88


FORMAT
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Note the following fields with respect to the above entry:

(1) Entries are sorted by first author, so  his last  name should be
    first.  For the other authors, it doesn't matter.   For the last
    author,  the  name  can be  listed after "and",  e.g.,

	Ballard, Dana H.; and Christopher M. Brown; 1985.

    The separator ";" between names is preferred. 

(2) Year of publication must appear at the end of line 1.  Thus one
    can refer to the paper above as [Aggarwal, Chang and Yap 85].

(3) The second line has the keywords.  Some keywords are AI, R
    (articulated robot), M (mechanism), MOBILE, GEOMOD (geometric
    modeling), VISION, LEARNING, LOGIC, etc.  Some keywords are
    followed by 2D or 3D; this indicates the dimensionality.  For
    keyword scanning purposes, this line must include one or more "::"
    character somewhere, typically separating the "keyfields" from the
    "keywords".  

    For a  list of  keywords, see  the file /sarah/ppl/guest/rb688/bib/keywords.freq.
    Some keywords  have a standard form  (e.g. expert-system is KBS,
    path-planning is OBSTACLE-AVOID).  If doubtful which keyword to
    use, consult this file or use by_key -a.

(4) The  second line also has the  Author's affiliation at the end.  
    This tells you where the author(s) is(are) from.  More than one
    affiliation can be listed, e.g.

	<KEYWORDS::KEYWORDS ...>		IBM-TJW/NYU-Courant

    Again, for search purposes, the affiliation should be separated
    from the keywords by a tab or more white spaces.

(5) Title of the work, indented four spaces (for appearance).

(6) Source of document (reference).  TR numbers are a must for tech
    reports, volume and page numbers for Journals, e.g.

	NYU Courant Report No. 160, Robotics Report No. 42, May, 1985.

(7) The comments, when there are any, reflect the personal opinion
    of the reviewer.  Each line must begin with a '{'. 

(8) Comments should be signed and dated  by the  reviewer. 

TOOLS FOR USE WITH EMACS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The   files  bib-mode.el  and bib-mode.ml   contain  some macros   for
formatting, sorting  and maintaining the  bibliographies.  bib-mode.el
is the version for GNU emacs, and bib-mode.ml works with Gosling emacs
(e.g.  Unipress).    These are defined  in one  of  the  lisp language
variants, and  are loaded into emacs by  inserting the following lines
in your .emacs_pro file (Unipress emacs):

(autoload "bib-mode"   	"<bib-installation-directory>/bib.ml")
(bind-to-key "bib-mode"            	   "\^XB")

Then after  you  enter emacs, you   can  type  ^X-B to  initialize the
macros.  This actually loads in  the file bib.ml, which contains  some
meager explanations of  the   functions.  Particularly useful is   the
comment formatting  (^X-F)  and sort-entries (^X-O) functions.  It's a
good idea to save your file, esp.  before sorting.   Also to use these
THERE MUST BE AT LEAST TWO  CLEAR LINES both at the  beginning and the
end of the  file.  If something doesn't  work, most probably  ^X-^U or
ESC-} will  recover.    Other  emacs  macros  include merge-with-file,
convert-to-bibroff (which converts  to  approximately  the  nroff  bib
format), move-entry, etc.