Installing LaTeX on MacOS - A brief guide into LaTeX (Part I)

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software.

If you want to create and edit documents in Mac, you'll need to install and editor and a compiler; I'm currently using TeXworks, it's not the most fancy editor, but gets the job done. You can install it just using brew, with the following order:

brew cask install texworks

You will also need a compiler, this is the software that does all the work under the hood and is needed for TeXworks in order to compile documents. I use MacTeX, and this software is directly dectected by TeXworks, so you'll no need further configuration. You can install it in the same way:

brew cask install mactex-no-gui

Bibliography on LaTeX - A brief guide into LaTeX (Part II)

This post (and the related ones) is more intended to help me when I'm using LaTeX than anything else, the references here couldn't be accurated or the best solution when you're writing in LaTeX because I'm a newbie in this system.

My working environment:
- Operating System: MS Windows 7 Professional 64 bits
- LaTeX Environment: TexWorks
- LaTeX Compiler: pdfLaTeX

The procedure to create a bibliography is as follows:

Create a file with .bib extension. For example references.bib. This file will contain all references that you are using in your article, book, etc. and save it in the same level where you have your .tex document.

To generate the documentation you must issue the following:
- Compile .tex file with pdfLaTeX
- Compile .tex file with BibTeX
- Compile .tex file with pdfLaTeX
- Compile .tex file with pdfLaTeX

It's not a mistake compiling two times after BibTeX, because the first time is for generating the references on the document, and the second time is for putting the number of reference where the documents are cited.

In your .tex document, the syntax is the following \cite{label} where label is the first parameter inside the reference.