Let’s grasp the easiest way of inserting citations and bibliographic information in a LaTeX document. Using a separate file to store bibliographic information has been suggested by a lot  many people. However, it become cumbersome to deal with multiple files at a time and sharing also become tedious. Things become easier when you use an external editor such as WinEdt working with a single TeX file preventing from all the headache of sharing bib file each time while sending TeX file to the supervisor. So, here find the easiest and the simplified method to insert citations and references in your document!!

To add references and type bibliographic information, add the following commands just before the the end{document} command:

begin{thebibliography}{}
end{thebibliography} 

Now in between these two commands, bibliographic info is typed. One may start it the following way:

begin{thebibliography}{} 
bibitem{James}James, Telling how to add references, 12324
end{thebibliography}

Now You have to cite the reference that is created in the bibliography section. For this, you just have to add the command $cite{James}$, wherever you want to cite. 

This is all what is to be done. LaTeX is very comfortable for handling large number of references. Your citation automatically get numbered according to the ordering of references in the list which may later be altered for a defined sequence.

 

1. Do not add any line break or fullstop when typing the identifier in the braces followed by bibitem command. 
2.  Do not place any ampersand sign (&) while typing bibliography. 
3. The identifier in cite command braces must exactly match to the one used in the bibitem command.

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