General ⇒ month field not appearing in bibliography w/ harvard style

[apaydin]

Hi,

I was wondering why the month field does not appear with the bibliography style file called agsm (it does appear with plain).
Here is my bibtex entry:

@InProceedings{LanYan03,
author = {C. Langmead and A. Yan and R. Lilien and L. Wang and B.R. Donald},
title = {A Polynomial-Time Nuclear Vector Replacement Algorithm for Automated {NMR} Resonance Assignments},
booktitle = {Proc. The Seventh Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)},
pages = {176--187},
year = {2003},
address = {Berlin},
month = {April},
publisher = {ACM Press},
note = {appears in: {\em J. Comp. Bio. (2004), Vol. 11, no. 2-3, pp. 277-98}}
}

If I do:

\bibliographystyle{plain}

Here is what the pdf looks like:
[20] C. Langmead, A. Yan, R. Lilien, L. Wang, and B.R. Donald. A polynomial-time nuclear
vector replacement algorithm for automated NMR resonance assignments. In Proc. The Seventh
Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RE-
COMB), pages 176–187, Berlin, April 2003. ACM Press. appears in: J. Comp. Bio. (2004),
Vol. 11, no. 2-3, pp. 277-98.

If I do:

\bibliographystyle{agsm}

Here is what the pdf looks like:
Langmead, C., Yan, A., Lilien, R., Wang, L. & Donald, B. (2003), A polynomial-time nuclear
vector replacement algorithm for automated NMR resonance assignments, in ‘Proc. The Seventh
Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)’,
ACM Press, Berlin, pp. 176–187. appears in: J. Comp. Bio. (2004), Vol. 11, no.
2-3, pp. 277-98.

As you can see the second one does not include the month field.

I also tried dcu bibliographystyle, but no luck so far.

Anyone knows why?

Thanks,

--MSA

[pumpkinegan]

Perhaps the harvard style does not print the month field. Not every style uses all of the citation information. The behavior is defined in the bst file. A previous post discussed the possibility of creating a custom bst file: http://www.latex-community.org/viewtopi ... 315&hilit=

My advice, if you are not obliged to use harvard and really want the month entry printed, would be to experiment with different BibTeX styles, and evaluate which one you like the best.

Patrick.

[apaydin]

I also thought that Harvard style does not include months. I think I have to use Harvard style. The only solution I know of is to manually edit the bbl file at the end.

Thanks for the bst file link.

--MSA