BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Shorter author list in the bibliography using apalike.bst

[droog]

Dear Latex Users,

I am drafting a long manuscript containing over 300 references, some of them have a rather long list of author names (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075255). This causes my bibliography section to grow very long. As I am not an expert on bibliography styles I was wondering if anyone knew how to adapt the apalike.bst bibliography style to shorten e.g. the list of authors in the bibliography to the first 9 ones and then using "... and Doe, J. and others"?

I found something similar in the agu04.bst style but I not smart enough to port it to the apaplike.bst style file.

Regards, droog

[droog]

Dear Latex Users,

In the meanwhile I found a solution. You can use the following command to create a custom bibliography style file:

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latex makebst

After a series of questions you get the a *.bst file with all the features you want --- so e.g. also the short author list with only a maximum of nine authors .

droog

[localghost]

It should be mentioned that this requires an installed custom-bib package.


Best regards
Thorsten

[tunamaccheese]

Are style files generated with 'latex makebst' compatible with natbib?

Thanks,

--Jordan

[tunamaccheese]

Dear all,

I believe I found a couple resources that indicate that this is possible:

http://www.medicalnerds.com/latex-bibli ... nd-styles/

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... f=4&t=2024

Sorry for not finding these before posting.

--Jordan