Introducation

To use TeX on Mac OS X, it suffices to install TeXShop and one of BasicTeX, gwTeX, or TeXLive-2007-Dev. For a more complete installation, install MacTeX-2007, but then upgrade TeXShop to the latest version.

Installation

gwTeX

1. I installed gwTeX by i-installer. Link.

## I download and install II2.dmg, ## and then install "gwTeX based on TeX Live" in /usr/local/gwTeX, this will also install xelatex in /usr/texbin/ which can be used by TeXShop

1. Install TeXShop

BasicTeX

http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html

How to put references into an article

Assume that we have an article named DNA.tex written in Tex, and an file named DNA.bib which exported by a reference manage software (eg: BibDesk). The citations you inserted in the article correspond to the papers in the reference file.

What we can do by TeXShop is following:

1. latex DNA.tex

#:This produce DNA.aux

1. bibtex DNA.aux (or DNA.tex)

#:This produce DNA.bbl and DNA.blg

1. latex DNA.tex two more times.

#:Finally you get DNA.pdf

We can also do it in terminal:

pdflatex DNA.tex
bibtex DNA.aux
pdflatex DNA.tex
pdflatex DNA.tex

some explanation for the above procedures: http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibstyles.html

Reference

TeX on Mac OS X

Getting Started With TeX

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