BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Using CTAN package in overleaf for Bath Harvard referencing

[emmart]

Hello all,
I am completely new to BibTex and overleaf and an absolute beginner. I have been trying to understand how to use a package from CTAN for my bibliography but despite the explanations given, I am not managing to use it in overleaf.
The package: https://github.com/alex-ball/bathbib or https://ctan.org/pkg/bath-bst . Could anyone help me with it or has anyone done before?

Thanks all,
emmart

[Ijon Tichy]

The package is available in TeX Live 2018 and 2019. Currently Overleaf uses a complete installation of the latest TeX Live 2018. So AFAIK it should be available on Overleaf without any further installation. Just use it as described in the manual from section 2–4 (section 1 is how to install the package, which should not be needed). So, what have to tried (please show us a minimal working example) and what are the error messages, that you have got?

[emmart]

Hello, thanks for your answer
I have tried the code which is in the manual;

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[square,numbers]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{bathx}
\begin{document}

my text
\cite{saville2011}

\bibliography{Bibliography} 
%I also tried \bibliography{Bibliography.bib}
\end{document}

In a Bibliography.bib file I created the reference :

@incollection{saville2011,
author = {Saville, Alan},
title = {The Struck Lithic Artefacts},
booktitle = {Shifting sands : links of Noltland, Westray : interim report on Neolithic and Bronze Age excavations, 2007-09},
year = {2011},
editor = {Moore, Hazel and Wilson, Graeme},
series = {Archaeology report (Historic Scotland) ; no. 4},
publisher = {Historic Scotland},
pages = {96-98},
address = {Edinburgh}}



However, I am still getting the errors:

BibTeX I couldn't open style file bathx.bst : \bibstyle{bathx output.aux, line 2 : }

and

Package natbib Warning: Citation `saville2011' on page 1 undefined on input line 29.

So I'm not too sure which mistake I am making here.
Thanks for your time!

[Ijon Tichy]

I have no problem with the example on Overleaf. Maybe your bib filename is wrong. Try the following example:

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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@incollection{saville2011,
author = {Saville, Alan},
title = {The Struck Lithic Artefacts},
booktitle = {Shifting sands : links of Noltland, Westray : interim report on Neolithic and Bronze Age excavations, 2007-09},
year = {2011},
editor = {Moore, Hazel and Wilson, Graeme},
series = {Archaeology report (Historic Scotland) ; no. 4},
publisher = {Historic Scotland},
pages = {96-98},
address = {Edinburgh}}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[square,numbers]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{bathx}
\begin{document}
 
my text
\cite{saville2011}
 
\bibliography{\jobname} 
\end{document}

The Overleaf result is:



The only warning message:

LaTeX Warning: File `output.bib' already exists on the system.
               Not generating it from this source.

is expected.

The (downloadable) blg file begins with:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2018)
Capacity: max_strings=100000, hash_size=100000, hash_prime=85009
The top-level auxiliary file: output.aux
The style file: bathx.bst
Reallocated wiz_functions (elt_size=4) to 6000 items from 3000.
Database file #1: output.bib
You've used 1 entry,
            5153 wiz_defined-function locations,
            884 strings with 6261 characters,
and the built_in function-call counts, 911 in all, are:

So everything is fine.

So I cannot reproduce your problem on Overleaf.

And with my local up-to-date installation of TeX-Live 2019 I got the same PDF result. (As expected, the log and blg differ in "TeX Live 2019" instead of "TeX Live 2018".)

[emmart]

Thanks for your answer,
I copied your code and it worked, which I'm still not sure why but thanks a lot!