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I am moving alot of appendix material to an attached CD with my report. I was wondering if there was a right or wrong way to reference to CD content.

In this case how can this be accomplished? Would you just cite to a reference which points to the CD?

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  • Did you consider attaching the files to the PDF instead of shipping a CD? – Marco May 29 '12 at 09:48
  • @Marco, i have already done this, but in my faculty we have guidelines for attachments filling more than 10pages, which all my documents do. – JavaCake May 29 '12 at 09:52
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    I am not talking about printing the contents of your files into the chapter “Appendix”, I mean to embed binary files (eg. PDFs) into the main document, see Is there some way to embed LaTeX source code in a PDF file? – Marco May 29 '12 at 10:09
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    I'm not clear on whether your question is about bibliographies and citations or, instead, about creating cross-references to "objects" (tables, figures, whole sections and chapters) found in an external document. If it's the latter, you could look into using the xr package, which lets you create cross-references to items in an external (la)tex document. – Mico May 29 '12 at 10:22
  • @Marco, they are already attached in my appendix with the method you linked to, which i have to avoid in this case. Im more interested in the correct method to reference to a CD based appendix. Would you just use a @manual template and reference to this? Perhaps im making a way too big deal out of this, and most likely could go with simple reference that points to the filename on the CD. – JavaCake May 29 '12 at 10:39
  • @Mico, my question is actually much simpler than that! Sorry for the confusion, but im trying to figure out the correct way to cite (or just reference) a CD based material. – JavaCake May 29 '12 at 10:40
  • You can consider the appendices as a separate 'publication' using @misc for the whole cd or individual @incollection entries for each appendix with booktitle='My appendix CD' or something - however, since the appendices are part of the report, you can also choose not to cite them and instead refer to them, i.e., just write See CD:Appendix 23 or See Supplementary Material: List of Things or even See \href{filename}{some appendix} if you plan to include the report pdf on the CD and distribute it as such to the readers. – Marijn Jun 05 '18 at 12:44

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To cite a (music?) compact disc using BibTeX, you could use the @misc entry type (required fields: none; optional fields: author, title, howpublished, month, year, note). If you're willing and able to use the newer biblatex system, you could use the @audio or (more specifically) the @music entry types.

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