Text Formatting ⇒ natbib | Appearance of Bibliography

[costanza]

I've been working on the bibliography display on TexMaker for an entire week. I've figured out most things, but now I really need help with these last (probably easy) steps. I would really appreciate any sort of help.

This is what I have so far:

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\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}
\cite{biber1987textual} has found some interesting results.
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\bibliography{BibDeskCostanza}
\end{document}

This is what I'd like to get:

The desired output.

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Description:

• in the text, I'd like to see the citation in round brackets, no commas unless there are multiple citations, no first names.
• in the reference list, I'd like to see:
  • for books with one author:
    author's last name (no comma) initials of author's first names [period] year of publication [period] title of the book, italics, all capital letters [period] address of publication [colon] publisher (no punctuation at the end)
  • for books with two authors:
    first author's last name (no comma) initials of author's first names [comma] second author's last name (no comma) initials of author's first names [period] year of publication [period] title of the book, italics, all capital letters [period] address of publication [colon] publisher (no punctuation at the end)
  • for chapters in books:
    author's last name (no comma) initials of author's first names [period] year of publication [period] title of the chapter, all capital letters [period] "In" editor's last name (no comma) initials of editor's first names [period] title of the book, italics, all capital letters [period] address of publication [colon] publisher (no comma) page numbers, separated by a single hyphen (no punctuation at the end)
  • for articles:
    author's last name (no comma) initials of author's first names [period] year of publication [period] title of the article, all capital letters [period] name of journal, italics (no comma) journal number [colon, no spacing] page numbers, separated by a single hyphen (no punctuation at the end)

etc.


Many thanks!

[localghost]

For an adequate problem description it will require a proper minimal example that is compilable out of the box.

[…] in the text, I'd like to see the citation in round brackets, no commas unless there are multiple citations, no first names. […]

I'm quite sure that the natbib manual has some useful information in this regard.

[…] in the reference list, I'd like to see […]

Get familiar with the BibTeX entry types in the database. There are several entry types especially for articles or excerpts of books. And there are also several BibTeX styles which respect two or more authors.

Finally, you could take a look at the excellent BibLaTeX package. It allows to control the appearance of the bibliography by LaTeX commands from within the document. There are also several predefined styles on CTAN (biblatex-…).


Thorsten