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\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref,alltt}
\usepackage[resetlabels]{multibib}
\newcommand{\BibTeX}{\textsc{Bib}\TeX}
\newcites{tex}{Books and articles about \TeX}
\newcites{typography}{Books and articles about typography}
\begin{document}

\title{User Guide for \texttt{bestpapers.bst} Bibliography Style}
\author{Boris Veytsman\thanks{This work was commissioned by Consumer
    Financial Protection Bureau, United States Treasury.  This file
    and the package are in the public domain}}
\date{October 2014}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}



Many people preparing their r\'esum\'es find the requirement ``please
list five (or six, or ten) papers authored by you''.  The same
requirement is often stated for reports prepared by professional
teams.  The creation of such lists may be a cumbersome task. Even more
difficult is to support the lists over the time, when one adds new
papers.  The style \texttt{bestpapers.bst} is intended to make this task
simpler.  It is based on the idea that it is easier to score than to
sort: we can assign a score to a paper, and then let the computer to
select the papers with highest scores.

\section{Simple Usage}
\label{sec:simple}

The use of the package is simple.  We assume that you keep all your
publications in a \BibTeX\ file (or files).  Then,
\begin{enumerate}
\item Add to each bibliographic entry in the file the field
  \begin{alltt}
    score = \itshape SCORE
  \end{alltt}
  where \texttt{\itshape SCORE} is an non-negative integer.  The
  higher the score is, the more you think about the paper.  Since only
  the relation between scores matter, you may limit yourself to scores
  between, say, $0$ and $100$.  An absent score is equivalent to
  \texttt{score=0}.
\item Add to the preamble of your r\'esum\'e
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\end{verbatim}
  and to the document itself
\begin{verbatim}
\renewcommand{\refname}{My Best Works}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{myworks}
\bibliographystyle{bestpapers}
\end{verbatim}
\item You document will get the list of five~best works, sorted by
  decreasing scores.
\end{enumerate}


\section{Customization}
\label{sec:custom}


Sometimes you need to change the number of best papers displayed.  
The package introduces a new entry type \verb|@SETUP| with the
field \verb|max.best.papers|, for example,
\begin{verbatim}
@SETUP{setup,
  max.best.papers = 6,
}
\end{verbatim}

Normally the score of the papers is not printed.  However, for debug
purposes you can change this: just define the command
\verb|\PrintScore|, for example
\begin{verbatim}
\newcommand{\PrintScore}[1]{Score: #1}
\end{verbatim}

\section{Bibexport}
\label{sec:bibexport}

Sometimes you need to extract your best works from \texttt{.bib} files
rather than typeset the list of them.  You can use for this the
program \textsl{bibexport} (\url{http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bibexport}), a
handy tool for the manipulation of \BibTeX\ databases.  The package
provides the style \texttt{bestpapers-export.bst} intended for this
task.  

To extract the best works from the files \texttt{myworks.bib} and
\texttt{ourworks.bib}  into the file \texttt{result.bib},
\begin{enumerate}
\item Create the file \texttt{extract.aux} with the following content:
\begin{verbatim}
\citation{*}
\bibdata{myworks,ourworks}
\bibstyle{bestpapers-export}
\end{verbatim}

\item If necessary, add to any of these files \texttt{@SETUP} entry as
  described in Section~\ref{sec:custom}.
\item Run
\begin{verbatim}
bibexport -b bestpapers-export -o result.bib export.aux
\end{verbatim}

\end{enumerate}


\section{Multiple Bibliographies}
\label{sec:multiple}



Sometimes you need to have collective report and provide several
best papers for each person in the group.  The package
\texttt{multibib} allows you to do this:
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{chico,harpo,groucho,zeppo}{Chico's Papers,%
                                     Harpo's Papers,%
                                     Groucho's Papers,%
                                     Zeppo's Papers}
...
\nocitechico{*}
\bibliographychico{chico.bib}
\bibliographystylechico{bestpapers}

\nociteharpo{*}
\bibliographyharpo{harpo.bib}
\bibliographystyleharpo{bestpapers}

\nocitegroucho{*}
\bibliographygroucho{groucho.bib}
\bibliographystylegroucho{bestpapers}

\nocitezeppo{*}
\bibliographyzeppo{zeppo.bib}
\bibliographystylezeppo{bestpapers}
\end{verbatim}

Note that you may want to use \texttt{resetlabels} option of the
\texttt{multibib} package if you want all the lists to start from~1.

An example of this usage is the source code of this file, which lists
6~books about \TeX\ and 5~books about typography separately.  

\nocitetex{*}
\nocitetypography{*}
\bibliographytex{tex}
\bibliographystyletex{bestpapers}
\bibliographytypography{typography}
\bibliographystyletypography{bestpapers}

\end{document}
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