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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label custbib</title>
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<h3>Creating a bibliography style</h3>
<p/>It <em>is</em> possible to write your own: the standard bibliography
styles are distributed in a commented form, and there is a description
of the language (see
<a href="FAQ-BibTeXing.html">BibTeX documentation</a>).
However, it must be admitted that the language in which BibTeX
styles are written is pretty obscure, and one would not recommend
anyone who’s not a confident programmer to write their own, though
minor changes to an existing style may be within the grasp of many.
<p/>If your style isn’t too ‘far out’, you can probably generate it by
using the facilities of the <i>custom-bib</i> bundle. This
contains a file <i>makebst.tex</i>, which runs you through a text menu
to produce a file of instructions, with which you can generate your
own <code>.bst</code> file. This technique doesn’t offer entirely new styles
of document, but the system’s “master BibTeX styles” already
offer significantly more than the BibTeX standard set.
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<dt><tt><i>BibTeX documentation</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc.zip">biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>makebst.tex</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=custbib">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=custbib</a>
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