General ⇒ BibTeX custom style file [solved]

[reika]

Hi,
I'm new on this forum and to LaTeX, so please excuse any silly questions

I've been searching now for 2 hours on how to do this, and it appears I need some assistance...
I'm trying to use install a .bst file (bibtex style) and to make citations and reference list in Texshop. I'm using OS X btw.

When I'm using any of the bibtex styles that are preinstalled (like plain or apalike) my references show perfectly. I would however like to use another (called apa.bst), but I can not get it work.

my latex test file looks like this:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\begin{document}

citation test \cite{Andersen:1783zr}.

\bibliographystyle{apa}
\bibliography{test}
\end{document}

I hope you guys can give me some input on how to solve this! Thanks alot!
R

[funkydan2]

Where did you but your bst file?

Did you run texhash after you moved the file to that directory?

[reika]

Where did you but your bst file?

I put them in home/texmf/bibtex/bst , but i also tried other locations (always in X/texmf/bibtex/bst, with x being library folders, mac hd root)
I've also tried to put the bst file in the working directory, without success

Did you run texhash after you moved the file to that directory?

yes
and the texhash returns this:

sudo texhash
Password:
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R...
texhash: Done.

thanks

[Juanjo]

By default, apa.bst is at /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/beebe/. So you don't need to install it. To do it work, you have to load a package which defines some command that the bibstyle uses. Load natbib.

[reika]

and it works like a charm! thanks!