BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ problems with the reference list

[greenfalcon]

hello,

i have been dealing with latex for only a couple of days so i didnt get familiar with it yet. therefore, please excuse my rookie question: but how can i create a reference list in a "plain" style?

it is supposed to look like that

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i tried to do it like that:

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\begin{thebibliography}{9}

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\bibitem{Burda04}
  Michael C. Burda and Charles Wyplosz.\newline
  \emph{Markoökonomie - Eine europäische Perspektive.}\newline
  Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH,
  2003.

\bibitem{Krueger05}
  David Card and Alan B. Krueger.\newline
  Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in \newline
New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Reply.\newline
  \textit{The American Economic Review}, 90(5):1397–1420, 2000.

\end{thebibliography}

this gives me the following:

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it certainly does look close... but i think that our teacher wants to see something else... does anyone have an idea what i am doing wrong? what is this "plain" style?

thank you

[localghost]

Attachments shall be uploaded to the forum server. External links can get lost with time and make a problem incomprehensible.

A bibliography style is meant to work only with BibTeX, not with a handmade bibliography like yours. Moreover it is most helpful to post a full and minimal example (for reference use the search function of the forum).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[olofos]

"plain style" probably refers to the bibtex style named plain. The following should give something very similar to your example:

Put the following in a file named "test.tex"

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\documentclass[openbib]{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{test}
\end{document}

and in the same directory create a file "test.bib" with the content

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@Book{Burda:2003,
  author        = {Michael C. Burda and Charles Wyplosz},
  title         = {Marko{\"o}konomie - {E}ine europ{\"a}ische {P}erspektive},
  publisher     = {Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH},
  year          = 2003
}

@Article{Card:2000,
  author        = {David Card and Alan B. Krueger},
  title         = {Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the
                  Fast-Food Industry in {N}ew {J}ersey and
                  {P}ennsylvania: Reply},
  journal       = {The American Economic Review},
  year          = 2000,
  volume        = 90,
  number        = 5,
  pages         = {1397-1420}
}

To generate a pdf file from the above two files you need to run

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pdflatex test
bibtex test
pdflatex test
pdflatex test

For more info on bibtex check, e.g., the FAQ

[greenfalcon]

dear all,

thank you very much and please excuse that i didnt pay attention to all the forum conventions. i will try hard to do so in the future

the only thing i don't understand is what you, olofos, wrote at the end

what i am supposed to do by:

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pdflatex test
bibtex test
pdflatex test
pdflatex test

i am a real latex rookie... :/

anyway, thank you very much!

[olofos]

I just meant that you need to run both latex and bibtex to produce the final pdf. The commands I gave is what you would run at the command line. If you use some latex aware editor it will presumably run the correct sequence automatically when you tell it to compile your document. This is totally dependent on what editor you're actually using though.

[greenfalcon]

hello olofos,

it works now! great

the only thing is, that the lines still look a little different from what i am supposed to get... actually there should be a new line after every information

do you know how i can fix that?

thank you

ps: is this really the same "plain" style? it somehow looks different from each other... ?_?

[olofos]

Hmm. The 'openbib' option in the document class should put each part of the reference on its own line. Did you try the example I posted? I get something very similar to what you want (apart from some difference in capitalization which can be fixed in the bibtex file).

[greenfalcon]

dear olofos,

i found my mistake! there was a comma missing in the head...

now it looks just as it is supposed to!

i have just one last question: how can i move the whole thing a bit more i the middle?

because now, the break is "Jersey", but it's supposed to be at "New"