General ⇒ BibTex, Harvard etc

[jimisola]

Hi!

I'm writing a thesis and my school and supervisor has some requirements and request.
In case anyone here is Swedish or is familiar with Jarl Backman's book "Rapporter and uppsatser" that what we follow.

It is basically Harvard citation as far as I know and the following apply:

1) Use Harvard citation, i.e. (Laursen, 2007)
2) Same author - many works: (Laursen, 2006, 2007, 2008a, 2008b, in progress)
3) Many authors: (Laursen, S & T, 2008)
4) 2-6 authors: print all names first time citation is used (Laursen, S, T, U, 2008) and then use "et al" (Laursen et al, 2008)
5) >6 authors: use "et al" even first time (Laursen et al, 2008)
6) Many works same citation: ordered alfabetical (not chronological) using authors' lastnames. works or references are separated with a semicolon ; after year. (Laursen, 2005; Laursen et al 2008; S, T, U, 1999)
7) Organisations: first time (United Nations [UN], 1996), thereafter (UN, 1996)

Is this doable with any existing style?

To my knowledge the harvard-latex that I now does (at least) not apply with 1) (no comma), 4) (no use of et al) and 7.

I'm not sure about 7) since I haven't been able to figure out how I should write Organizations in full and with acronym. I currently only use

author = "{United Nations}",
key = "UN",

Also, what is the recommended format for writing multiple authors of a work?

I've used

author = "A. AA, B. BB, C. CC, D. DD"

as well as

author = "A. AA and B. BB and C. CC and D. DD"

The latter replaces and with & if there are only two authors. However, if there are more than two authors all "and" are left as is and not replaced with , (comma), i.e. first time (AA, BB, CC and DD, 2007) and thereafter (AA et al, 2007).

How much work is it to write my own citation style? I've no previous experience of writing things for LaTeX - I'm merely a Java developer.

Regards,
Jimisola

[jimisola]

It's gotten a bit clearer.

I do however, have a few questions:

1) I use .bib file and among one of the entries is:

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@misc{ICAO-9803,
	author = "{International Civil Aviation Organization}",
	key = "ICAO",
	title = "Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) (ICAO Doc 9803 AN/761)",
	year = "2002"
}

The documention for harvard-latex states that I should use the following format:

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\harvarditem[abbr-citation]{full-citation}{citation-year}{cite-key}...

e.g. \harvarditem[Jones et al.]{Jones, Baker, and Smith}{1990}{key}...

If would like to have the whole bibliography in one file, my .bib file, if possible.

Is this still possible with my .bib file and if so how do I do to use the \harvarditem format in it?
If not, how do I do then? Including a simple bib.tex which has my \harvarditem in it?

2) @proceedings are not outputed correctly (according to me).

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 @proceedings{glimpse-at-archie,
  author = "A. Merritt",
  key = "A. Merritt",
  ...	

is outputed as "A. (2005). A Glimpse at Archie: ....". Where did Merritt go?

This does not happen with @misc.

3) I have a "@preamble{{Information about references}}" in the top of my bib-file. When using harvard (dcu) the preamble gets in the document but it's on the absolute first page (even before title page) and not on top of the bibliography/references page.

Regards,
Jimisola

[jimisola]

I now use

\usepackage[harvard,dcucite]{harvard}

and it works really nice. Howver, I still haven't figured out how I can use the \harvarditem format in my regular .bib file (i.e. with @misc etc). Do I have to use the raw \harvarditem? I mainly need to use it to handle Organizations and their acronyms.

Regards,
Jimisola