BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Does the latex bibliography style I want exist?

[ridge1988]

Hi!

I am currently using bibliography style "ieeetr" to do all my references, because I like the order in which it displays the references, i.e the order they appear in the text, rather than alphabetical. I also like that it lists them as [1], [2] etc rather than putting names and dates in the main body of the text.

However- I have a problem with this style in that when I reference a paper, rather than putting 'A. Person et al' as is standard if there are more than 3 authors, it proceeds to list them all, which is not very pretty! Is there a style which encompasses both the nice reference ordering of ieetr & automatically puts 'et al' when there are more than 3 authors?

Thanks!

[kaiserkarl13]

You can create your own bibliography database that will do the references more or less precisely how you want them, including the maximum number of authors it will print before substituting "et al." for them. To do so, type "latex makebst" and answer the (many) questions it asks you.

[ridge1988]

Thanks for your answer. I would make my own bibliography but I don't have a clue how to do it on TexnicCenter, and don't know how to use terminal or bring it up on windows machine. Any ideas?

[kaiserkarl13]

Does it not work to open a command prompt ("cmd" in the "run" box in Windows) and type "latex makebst"?