For another take on learning Emacs for LaTeX editing see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/50919/5701

I’ve been an auctex user for some time, but still I find some tips mentioned in your post and the comments below very useful. thanks!

Thanks man! that was completely useful. From my perspective it offers a solution for Kile drawbacks

in ubuntu intrepid i did the following

sudo apt-get install auctex preview-latex

the flyspell and cua are installed by default, just need to activate them from the menu.

tools->spell checking->automatic spell checking(flyspell)

and

options->customize emacs->top level customization group

then there choose

convenience group -> cua group

at the end of the cua group you can see

CUA MODE

just toggle on and enjoy

Sujarit,

Check out natbib – for natural sciences – has ref styles very close to the ones you want. Otherwise makebst can produce almost anything, but takes some practice.

Dave

[…] Here is part two of my quest to make Emacs my default LaTex IDE on both windows and Linux. Installation and configuration of Emacs and the LaTex add-on AUCTex on Ubuntu was surprisingly easy and uneventful. On windows however I ran into little bit more difficulty. […]

Surajit, there is no way to do it exactly in that format but the apalike format should be close enough:

\bibliographystyle{apalike} 

\begin{document}

Reference to a paper in proceedings \cite{fanty:icassp93}.

Will result in:

Reference to a paper in proceedings [Fanty et al., 1993].

References

[Fanty et al., 1993] Fanty, M., Schmid, P., and Cole., R. (1993). City name recognition over the telephone. In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume I, pages 549-552, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

Examples are from here.

Hi,
Which bibliographic style file do i need to use to get the following citation and references.

For Example: Das et al. (2005) proposed…..; Brinson and Lin (1997) derived the formulation…..; Otsuka (2007) proposed………etc.

References
Brinson, L. C., Lin K. J. (1997), Finite Element Analysis……., Journal of Intelligent material, 6(2), 19-34
Das s., Peng L. G., Yen P. S., (2005), ………..
Otsuka J. K. (2007), ……..

Wow, whizzy is pretty cool. Thanks for the tip!

My only complaint is that if you open a really big file (20+ pages) the DVI viewer just can’t keep up.

If you liked preview latex in AUCTeX you should try whizzytex-mode togeher with AUCTeX. With whizzy you’ll have a split screen with the emacs and dvi-viewer updating as you write the text.

Depends on your OS. On linux it’s usually located in your home directory (but since it is a dottet (ie. hidden) file you won’t see it in Konqueror or Nautilious by default. Just open a terminal and do:

emacs ~/.emacs

This should open your emacs file in emacs. :)

If you are on windows, it depends on the version of Emacs you have installed. I think EmacsW32 keeps it in %APPDATA% directory (which usually expands to C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Application Data\).