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I'm trying to create an annotated bibliography. Here's my .tex document:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\title{Annotated Bibliography}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliography{annotatedbib}

\end{document}

And here is the associated .bib document:

@Misc{hacker,
    AUTHOR = `{Andrew Hacker'},
    TITLE = {Is Algebra Necessary?},
    HOWPUBLISHED = {New York Times},
    MONTH = {July 31},
    YEAR = {2012},
    ANNOTE = {This article was published in the New York Times.},
}

No matter into which format I compile my .tex document, the annotation will not show up! Is there something that I'm missing?

Stephen
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    Welcome to TeX.sx! There is no field ANNOTE. There is a field note. Here you can see which fields are defined: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36248/url-of-cited-web-site-in-bibliography/36255#36255 – Marco Daniel Mar 02 '13 at 18:50

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You should use a bibliography style that does annotations; for instance annotate.bst:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Misc{hacker,
    AUTHOR = {Andrew Hacker},
    TITLE = {Is Algebra Necessary?},
    HOWPUBLISHED = {New York Times},
    MONTH = {July 31},
    YEAR = {2012},
    ANNOTATE = {This article was published in the New York Times.},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\title{Annotated Bibliography}

\begin{document}


\nocite{*}


\bibliographystyle{annotate}
\bibliography{\jobname}


\end{document}

Note that the field should be called annotate, not annote; here's the output. The filecontents* environment is just to keep the example selfcontained, you can continue to use an external file.

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Another style that does annotations (with the annote field) is chicago-annote that requires \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}.

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  • Is there something like this similar to the plain bibliography style? – vonbrand Mar 02 '13 at 22:30
  • I don't know. I ran a search for files having annot and .bst, finding those two. Probably biblatex is better at it. – egreg Mar 02 '13 at 22:32
  • Here is a link to a page that describes the use of the plain-anote.bst file: http://math.ucdenver.edu/~billups/courses/ma5779/annotated_bibliography.html Here is the link to plain-annote.bst: http://math.ucdenver.edu/~billups/courses/ma5779/plain-annote.bst –  Oct 28 '13 at 23:17
  • In your example it is showing the title "References". But for annotated bibliography I want to omit the title. How to do it? I can't find where is the title coming from? – user3436002 Apr 19 '18 at 01:51
  • @user3436002: Please post follow-up questions as new questions not as answer posts (I converted your to a comment now). In this case your question was already asked: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132646/how-to-remove-the-references-title – Martin Scharrer Apr 19 '18 at 05:24
  • How can this be done with biblatex and biber? Including \usepackage[backend=biber,style=???]{biblatex} in my preamble, there doesn't seem to be a good choice for style that prints the annotation field. – Mike Pierce Jan 08 '19 at 17:31
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    @MikePierce That's a completely different cup of tea. – egreg Jan 08 '19 at 18:11
  • Figured it out! :) Gotta use the reading style with another option, \usepackage[backend=biber,style=reading,annotation=true]{biblatex} to get the annotations to print, as explained in this answer. In this post, it also looks like the \fullcite{} command could be used to create an annotated bibliography in the body of the document, rather than in the references/bibliography itself. – Mike Pierce Jan 08 '19 at 18:49