BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ elsarticle | Installation of "model-5-names.bst"

[rkealey]

Hello all,

I'm new to the forum and I hope this is appropriate. I am using TeXShop v3.11 (through the MacTeX install package) on Mac OSX v10.8.2.

I am trying to use the "model-5-names.bst" file as my bibliography style file, however the system cannot find the file. I tried to install it in the folder structure of TeX on the mac but no luck. The elsarticle class installed fine and BiBTeX recognizes the regular "elsarticle-harv.bst" file just fine.

The LaTeX document looks like this:

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\documentclass{elsarticle}
\usepackage{natbib}
...
paper contents
...
\bibliographystyle{model-5-names} %if I use 'elsarticle-harv' here instead it works
\bibliography{references}
\end{document}

The BiBTeX error is:

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'I couldn't open style file model-5-names.bst
---line 83 of file paper.aux
 : \bibstyle{model-5-names
 :                        }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no style file---while reading file paper.aux

(There were 2 error messages)

so my inference of this is that it cannot find the model-5-names.bst file (so I must have improperly installed it, or put it in the incorrect structure, etc). Other forums I scoured have suggested install in ~Library\texmf\, but I do not have this file structure and have installed in just about every local file I could find (bad idea, I know!)

Perhaps I installed the whole LaTeX package incorrectly?
Any guidance on how to get BiBTeX to see the bibliography style file would be greatly appreciated!
Sorry if this is in the incorrect forum I wasn't sure where to put it

Ryan