# Windy City ## About Windy City is a style for [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex "biblatex") that formats notes, bibliographies, parenthetical citations, and reference lists according to the 17th edition of [The Chicago Manual of Style](http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ "Chicago Manual of Style"). It accurately handles a wide range of citations and includes a set of options and commands to support special circumstances. It also has extensive support for citing and arranging different kinds of editors, translators, and compilers within a single citation. These features make Windy City especially suitable for academic work. Windy City's latest release is available on [CTAN](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/windycity "CTAN: pkg/windycity"), the [Comprehensive TeX Archive Network](https://www.ctan.org "CTAN"). It includes a PDF of the [user guide](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/windycity/doc/windycity.pdf "windycity.pdf"). More recent changes are available at Windy City's [repository on GitHub](https://github.com/brianchase/windycity "GitHub: brianchase/windycity"). ## Getting Started If you already know how to use [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex "biblatex"), getting started with Windy City is easy. Locate [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex "biblatex") on your system, and copy Windy City's files into their respective directories: * .../biblatex/[windycity.dbx](https://github.com/brianchase/windycity/blob/master/windycity.dbx "windycity.dbx") * .../biblatex/bbx/[windycity.bbx](https://github.com/brianchase/windycity/blob/master/bbx/windycity.bbx "windycity.bbx") * .../biblatex/cbx/[windycity.cbx](https://github.com/brianchase/windycity/blob/master/cbx/windycity.cbx "windycity.cbx") * .../biblatex/lbx/[american-windycity.lbx](https://github.com/brianchase/windycity/blob/master/lbx/american-windycity.lbx "american-windycity.lbx") Next, tell [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex "biblatex") to load Windy City with the load-time option `style`: ``` \usepackage[style=windycity]{biblatex} ``` For some entries in your bibliography database, you may need to add fields or make other adjustments to get the right output. However, since Windy City relies as much as possible on standard BibTeX fields, and secondarily on [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex "biblatex") fields, you may not need to make major changes. The examples in this document and its accompanying bibliography database, [windycity.bib](https://github.com/brianchase/windycity/blob/master/doc/windycity.bib "windycity.bib"), should serve as a guide for how to manage your input for nearly every circumstance that the style is meant to handle. ## License Copyright (c) 2019 Brian Michael Chase. Under the terms of the [LaTeX Project Public License](http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt "lppl.txt"), version 1.3, permission is granted to copy, distribute, or modify this software. See also . This software is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. ## Requirements * [TeX Live](http://www.tug.org/texlive "TeX Live") * [biblatex](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex "biblatex") 3.8 or higher