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Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques

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322 Chapter 14. Bibliographic Databases <strong>and</strong> BIBT E X<br />

<strong>to</strong> choose from, each one explaining its set of options <strong>to</strong> the user via<br />

makebst.<br />

Support for other languages is provided by means of additional .mbs<br />

files, one for each language, which contain the translations for such words<br />

as volume, edi<strong>to</strong>r, edition, <strong>and</strong> so on.<br />

Some of the features provided by the supplied generic bibliographic<br />

style file are:<br />

• numerical or author–year citations; in the latter case, one may also<br />

choose which \bibitem style is <strong>to</strong> be used;<br />

• order of references: by citation order, alphabetical by all authors,<br />

alphabetic by author–year label;<br />

• format of authors’ names: first name plus surname, initials plus<br />

surname, surname plus initials, reversed initials only for first author,<br />

<strong>and</strong> more;<br />

• number of author names <strong>to</strong> include before giving et al.;<br />

• typeface <strong>to</strong> be used for the author names;<br />

• position of date, parentheses or brackets around the year;<br />

• format of volume, number, <strong>and</strong> pages for journals;<br />

• capitalization of article titles as sentence or title style;<br />

• whether <strong>to</strong> use the word <strong>and</strong> or an ampers<strong>and</strong> &;<br />

• placement of commas with the word <strong>and</strong>;<br />

• whether <strong>to</strong> abbreviate edi<strong>to</strong>r, volume, chapter, etc.;<br />

• first <strong>and</strong> last page numbers or only first;<br />

• optional addition of shorth<strong>and</strong> designations of common journal<br />

names;<br />

• <strong>and</strong> much more.<br />

Abbreviations for many journal names in physics, optics, <strong>and</strong> geophysics<br />

can be provided in those .bst files produced by cus<strong>to</strong>m-bib,<br />

which then may be used in BIBT E X databases. It is unfortunate that these<br />

are <strong>to</strong> be found in the .bst files themselves, which means that they may<br />

not be universally present. Which ones are present depends on the options<br />

chosen by the producer of the style file. The file shorthnd.tex in<br />

the cus<strong>to</strong>m-bib installation lists all the current possible abbreviations.<br />

(Actually, it is generated by running L AT E X on shorthnd.ins, which then<br />

produces the most current list from the existing .mbs files.) To check<br />

what any particular .bst file contains, open it <strong>and</strong> look for the MACRO<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>s.

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