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When using Bibtex, the bibliography style is set and the bibliography file is imported with the following two commands:

  \bibliographystyle{stylename}
  \bibliography{bibfile}

where bibfile is the name of the bibliography .bib file, without the extension and stylename is one of the following:

stylename output
abbrv BibtexStylesEx1.png
acm BibtexStylesEx2.png
alpha BibtexStylesEx3.png
apalike BibtexStylesEx4.png
ieeetr BibtexStylesEx5.png
plain BibtexStylesEx6new.png
siam BibtexStylesEx7.png
unsrt BibtexStylesEx8.png

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