BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Customized Bibliography Style

[stephany87]

Hello,

I usually use "chicago" style but my teacher has asked me to present my bibliography as follows.

NAME, F. (year), "title of article", name of periodical, serie, volume (number), pages.

I can't find a style like that already made, and I'm really not good a creating parameters and stuff. I'm a historian and usually a friend creates the style for me but he cannot this time.

[MeneerJansen]

There are two ways:

1. The classic way.
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Download the custom-bib zip file and extract it (ctan link: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... custom-bib). My (very old) notes on this are as follows:

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A. Beginners
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1. Make your own BibTeX .bst style file using the package called custom-bib.
2. First time only: run the command: latex makebst.ins.
3. All other times run latex makebst and answer the excessive list of questions.
4. Alternatively run: latex my_custom_bib_style_file.dbj or hack the file "my_custom_bib_style_file.dbj" yourself. Congratulations: you now have a custom .bst file!
5. Make sure you've placed your .bst file in "/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/base"!
6. Run texhash (necessary?)
7. Run "LyX > Edit > Reconfigure" and restrart LyX. (necessary?)
8. Click in LyX on (hattrick here!): "View > TeX information > BibTeX styles > Rescan". Your new style file should pop up in all dialog boxes now.
9. Or place your *.BST it in a subdir of your LyX doc and refer to it. No spaces in the path and name of the file!

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B. Hackers
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1. Alternatively edit the .bst file itself. Beware that this can be very difficult because of the programming language used. Example: replace the word "volume" with the word "vol." under "FUNCTION {bbl.volume}".
2. If placed in the default directory (i.e. /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/base), you can edit the .bst file without reconfiguring.

2. Use the discontinued Windows prog 'BibIt'
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and use the style generator wizard.


It's not easy so good luck!

[localghost]

No need for explicit download. Installation of custom-bib (like any other package) can be done by the package manager of the used TeX distribution. Hence the steps A.2–A.6 are obsolete.


Thorsten