Noah Harding Chair and Professor, Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research
If you use LaTeX on the CAAM Unix machines, I suggest that you save references.bib in the subdirectory texmf/bibtex inside your home directory. Add the lines
setenv TEXINPUTS $HOME/texmf/tex: # search path for style files
setenv BSTINPUTS $HOME/texmf/tex: # search path for .bst files
setenv BIBINPUTS $HOME/texmf/bibtex: # search path for .bib files
to your ~/.cshrc file (on the CAAM machines you should add these lines to ~/.rc/cshrc.common). After you have done this (and 'sourced' ~/.cshrc) you can use
\bibliography{references}
\bibliographystyle{plain} % this can be replaced by any other bib style
in your LaTeX file. BibTeX will look into $HOME/texmf/bibtex for references.bib (thus you need to maintain only one copy of references.bib).