BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Customized AGSM Bibliography Style

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Hello,

I need my references list to be formatted for journal articles as the following:

Lastname AB, Nametwo C (2013) Interesting article title. J Cool St 100(5):3133-3180

I can't find an exact match style file anywhere, but AGSM is close, and I am working on fiddling with it to get it to meet my needs. Though firstly I suppose I should ask if anyone knows of an existing style, compatible with natbib, that is formatted like this.

But if such a style doesn't exist already, I just need to change a few more things in "agsm.bst".

Firstly, how do I get rid of periods after authors with multiple first initials i.e. if my BibTeX entry for author is this

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author = "Kwei, G. H. and Billings, Alex Bob Calvin"

How do I get it to this?

Kwei GH, Billings ABC

Changing {, f.} to { f} in format.authors doesn't get rid of the periods on all the authors initials, only the last one. It also doesn't get rid of the space between the initials.

I also need to strip the periods from my journal abbreviations in the bib file. I found this thread with a remove period function, but not entirely sure how to work it into the file.

The second thing I need is to get rid of the "and" before the last author's name. I can't find where this is in the style file.

Any help on this would be great! I've figured out most of the other small simple changes from the default "agsm.bst" I needed, but am just stuck on these last few things.

Thanks!


Edit:Ack. I've just discovered the "makebst" thing from custom-bib. Problem may be solved.

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You could consider to use biblatex and Biber.


Thorsten