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8.24.1 \bibitem

Synopsis:

     \bibitem[label]{cite_key}

The \bibitem command generates an entry labelled by label. If the label argument is missing, a number is automatically generated using the enumi counter. The cite_key is any sequence of letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols not containing a comma.

This command writes an entry to the .aux file containing the item's cite_key and label. When the .aux file is read by the \begin{document} command, the item's label is associated with cite_key, causing references to cite_key with a \cite command (see next section) to produce the associated label.