BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ BibLaTeX Coding for Newbies?

[clockworkbutterfly]

I'm rather reticent to post this, but it seems I have few options left. I presently use TeXShop (Mac OSX) and BibDesk. Both these programs work just fine together and I can see both citations and reference lists from BibDesk entries in my final document.

However, there is a particular nameless and rare bibliographic style that I would like to utilize in my document. Quite unsurprisingly it seems that no one has written a BibLaTeX style for it. This is what it looks like. (Please ignore the Japanese text. That part I can handle. I'm only concerned with the formatting.)

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I discovered quickly that it is no easy task to create one's own bibliographic style, especially as a BibLaTeX newbie. While useful as a reference, the BibLaTeX manual has not proved useful to me in terms of creating a new and very basic citation style from scratch, due to a lack of any kind of tutorial element.

Thus, I am wondering if there are any tutorials for creating even the most basic .bbx and .cbx files from scratch aside from the BibLaTeX manual. Alternately---as infinitely unlikely as it may be---if there is someone out there who would be willing to help explain how to code this style, that would also be excellent.

Thanks. My apologies for asking something so complicated.

-- CB


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