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+<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&rsquo;s
+original &ldquo;standard&rdquo; styles, <i>plain</i>, <i>unsrt</i>,
+<i>abbrv</i> and <i>alpha</i>. However, no style in that set
+supports the &ldquo;author-date&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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
+
+
+ &ldquo;<a href="http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/LaTeX/bibtexstyles.html">Choosing a BibTeX style</a>&rdquo;.
+</ul>
+<p/>Of course, these pages don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;standard&rdquo; 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
+&ldquo;examples&rdquo;, the BibTeX run will also give you an interesting
+selection of BibTeX&rsquo;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>