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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatbst.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatbst.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..71e450dd0cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatbst.html @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label whatbst</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Choosing a bibliography style</h3> +<p/>A large proportion of people are satisfied with one of Patashnik’s +original “standard” styles, <i>plain</i>, <i>unsrt</i>, +<i>abbrv</i> and <i>alpha</i>. However, no style in that set +supports the “author-date” citation style that is popular in many +fields; but there are a very large number of contributed styles +available, that <em>do</em> support the format. +<p/>(Note that author-date styles arose because the simple and clear +citation style that <i>plain</i> produces is so awkward in a +traditional manuscript preparation scenario. However, TeX-based +document production does away with all those difficulties, leaving us +free once again to use the simple option.) +<p/>Fortunately, help is at hand, on the Web, with this problem: +<ul> +<li> a sample text, showing the sorts of style choices available, can + be found on + + + <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html">Ken Turner’s web site</a>; +<li> an excellent survey, that lists a huge variety of styles, + sorted into their nominal topics as well as providing a good range + of examples, is the Reed College + + + “<a href="http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/LaTeX/bibtexstyles.html">Choosing a BibTeX style</a>”. +</ul> +<p/>Of course, these pages don’t cover everything; the problem the +inquisitive user faces, in fact, is to find what the various available +styles actually do. This is best achieved (if the links above don’t +help) by using <i>xampl.bib</i> from the BibTeX documentation +distribution: one can get a pretty good feel for any style one has to +hand using this “standard” bibliography. For style +<i>my-style.bst</i>, the simple LaTeX document: +<blockquote> +<pre> +\documentclass{article} +\begin{document} +\bibliographystyle{my-style} +\nocite{*} +\bibliography{xampl} +\end{document} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +will produce a representative sample of the citations the style will +produce. (Because <i>xampl.bib</i> is so extreme in some of its +“examples”, the BibTeX run will also give you an interesting +selection of BibTeX’s error messages...) +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>xampl.bib</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc/xampl.bib">biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc/xampl.bib</a> +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatbst">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatbst</a> +</body> |