Normal reStructuredText Files

This is a normal RST file.

Note

Those still work!

Sphinx Directives for Info/Warning Boxes

Warning

This is an experimental feature! Its usage may change in the future or it might disappear completely, so don’t use it for now.

With a bit of luck, it will be possible (some time in the future) to create info/warning boxes in Markdown cells, see https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/1292. If this ever happens, nbsphinx will provide directives for creating such boxes. For now, there are two directives available: nbinfo and nbwarning. This is how an info box looks like:

Note

This is an info box.

It may include nested formatting, even another info/warning box:

Warning: You should probably not use nested boxes!

Domain Objects

example_python_function(foo)

This is just for testing domain object links.

Parameters

foo (str) – Example string parameter

References

There are different ways of handling references, for example you could use the standard Sphinx citations, but it might be more practical to use the sphinxcontrib.bibtex extension.

After installing the sphinxcontrib.bibtex extension, you have to enable it in your conf.py and select the BibTeX file(s) you want to use:

extensions = [
    'nbsphinx',
    'sphinxcontrib.bibtex',
    # Probably more extensions here ...
]

bibtex_bibfiles = ['my-references.bib']

Afterwards all the references defined in the bibliography file(s) can be used throughout the Jupyter notebooks and other source files as detailed in the following.

Citations

You can create citations like [PGH11]:

:cite:`perez2011python`

You can create similar citations in Jupyter notebooks with a special HTML syntax, see the section about citations in Markdown cells.

You can create a list of references in any reStructuredText file (or reST cell in a notebook) like this:

.. bibliography::

Have a look at the documentation for all the available options.

The list of references may look something like this (in HTML output):

KRKP+16

Thomas Kluyver, Benjamin Ragan-Kelley, Fernando Pérez, Brian Granger, Matthias Bussonnier, Jonathan Frederic, Kyle Kelley, Jessica Hamrick, Jason Grout, Sylvain Corlay, Paul Ivanov, Damián Avila, Safia Abdalla, Carol Willing, and Jupyter Development Team. Jupyter Notebooks—a publishing format for reproducible computational workflows. In Fernando Loizides and Birgit Schmidt, editors, Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas, pages 87–90. IOS Press, 2016. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-87.

PGH11

Fernando Pérez, Brian E. Granger, and John D. Hunter. Python: an ecosystem for scientific computing. Computing in Science Engineering, 13(2):13–21, 2011. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.119.

However, in the LaTeX/PDF output the list of references will not appear here, but at the end of the document. For a possible work-around, see https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex/issues/156.

Footnote citations

With a sphinxcontrib.bibtex version of >= 2.0.0 it is possible to create footnote bibliographies with footnote citations like 1.

:footcite:`perez2011python`

Also footnote citations can be used within Jupyter notebooks with a special HTML syntax, see the section about footnote citations in Markdown cells. Footnote citations are restricted to their own source file and the assembly of the bibliography is (analogously to normal citations) invoked with the

.. footbibliography::

directive. For example, a footnote bibliography might look like this (in HTML output):

1

Fernando Pérez, Brian E. Granger, and John D. Hunter. Python: an ecosystem for scientific computing. Computing in Science Engineering, 13(2):13–21, 2011. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.119.

In the LaTeX/PDF output, there is no list of references appearing right here. Instead, the footnote citations are placed into the footnotes of their respective pages.

Thumbnail Galleries

With nbsphinx you can create thumbnail galleries in notebook files as described in Creating Thumbnail Galleries.

If you like, you can also create such galleries in reST files using the nbgallery directive.

It takes the same parameters as the toctree directive.

Note

The notes regarding LaTeX in Creating Thumbnail Galleries and Using toctree In A Notebook also apply here!

The following example gallery was created using:

.. nbgallery::
    :caption: This is a thumbnail gallery:
    :name: rst-gallery
    :glob:
    :reversed:

    gallery/*-rst