BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Harvard bibliography style

[magicmoose]

Hi

I need a specific Harvard bibliography style that conforms exactly to this document: http://www.unisa.edu.au/celusa/library/ ... encing.pdf. Using the natbib package with the agsm and kluwer bibliography styles, I can get close, but not identical results, in particular the first name initials have periods after them where they shouldn't, and the year is formatted incorrectly. I have tried using makebst to generate a custom style, but I could not make it work. If anyone has any help or advice please let me know.

Many thanks,
David

[magicmoose]

Has anyone got any ideas or things that I can look at to help with this?

[man2011]

Hi,

I use the following code which seems to satisfy my need since my need is quite similar to yours as far as I understnad

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\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}

the bibliography that is created is like the following

Famlyname, M. (2001). XXXXX. San Diego, CA: Academic Press,.

[man2011]

Hi,

I use the following code

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\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}

the bibliography that is created is like the following

Famlyname, M. (2001). XXXXX. San Diego, CA: Academic Press,.
I am curious to know what the answer for your question, please if you get it, just post it here..

[buster]

that kinda works for me
the only thing is that i already had a bibliography so have a few problems having to switch to harvard style.

edit:
only the first author's name is done correctly, (ie surname, initial) all the rest are initial, surname

secondly, how do you stop it thinking it's a name? say I just want to preserve Firstname Secondname how i've written it?

should i start a new thread for my problems?

[magicmoose]

I think the answer to this problem is to make a custom bibliography style with makebst. I've had a couple of goes at it, but I can't seem to get everything working and looking right, so does anyone know of a good guide for makebst?

Many thanks
David

[duboismathieu]

Hello,

I have never tried to do such thing but I think that the reference can be found here:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/bi ... ttb_en.pdf

Another way might be biblatex (I'm trying it right now).

HTH,
Mathieu