Tags are used as the unique key for the reference in the BibTex database. Please be sure that the same tag is not already used for another entry in the database. We use the following conventions for creation of reference tags:

• Each tag ends with a 2 digits corresponding to the year of publication (possibly followed by lowercase letters "a", "b", "c", etc.). The exception to this is when the item being referenced is a Web site or some other material without a publication date.

• In case of a single author, the tag will start with the first 4 letters of the author's last name (only first letter capitalized). If the last name has less than 4 letters, then the full last name is used. For example, a publication by B. Mobasher in 2001 will have a tag Moba01, and a publication by P. Yu in 99 has a tag Yu99, etc.

• In case of multiple authors, the tag is made up of the first letters of each last name (all uppercase) for up to 4 authors. If there are more than 4 authors, then we use the letters from the first 3 authors' last names followed by a "+". For example, a paper by A. Banerjee and J. Ghosh in 2001 has a tag BG01; a paper by Herlocker, Konstan, Borchers, Riedl in 1999 has a tag HKBR99; and a paper by Konstan, Miller, Maltz, Herlocker, Gordon, and Riedl in 1997 has a tag KMM+97.

• In case of two papers with the same tag using the above conventions, the two can be separated by adding lowercase letters "a", "b", "c", etc. at the end of the tag. For example, MDLN01a and MDLN01b. When adding a new reference to the bibliography, if the new tag conflicts with an existing tag, then such letter should be used starting with a "b". For example, if MDLN01 was previously added, a new tag with the same prefix can be added as MDLN01b.

Author Field Conventions:

When adding a new reference to the database, the authors should be entered as follows. Each author name is entered using the first (and possbily the middle) initial, followed by the author's last name. Multiple author names should be separated by ands without any commas or other characters. Example: B. Mobasher and R. Cooley and J. Srivastava.

Address Field Conventions:

For conference/workshop proceedings, the Address field represents the location where the conference or workshop was held. For books, the address is usually the address of the publishing company. The Address field usually only consists of the city and country to state. Examples:

@BOOK{Adam01,
  AUTHOR = {J. Adamo},
  TITLE = {Data Mining for Association Rules and Sequential Patterns},
  PUBLISHER = {Springer},
  ADDRESS = {New York},
  YEAR = {2001},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{DK01,
  AUTHOR = {M. Deshpande and G. Karypis},
  TITLE = {Selective Markov Models for Predicting Web-Page Accesses},
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the First International SIAM Conference on Data Mining},
  ADDRESS = {Chicago, Illinois},
  MONTH = {April},
  YEAR = {2001},
}

Books or Collections:

A bibliography entry for either a book or collection (of articles) is entered via the Book form. In case of a collection usually the Author field is left blank, and instead the Editor field is used. Only one of these fields needs to be entered. Note the difference between the collection as a book versus an article (or a chapter) in the collection: the former is added as a book reference, while the latter is entered using the InCollection form.