BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Custom Bibliography Style

[green_ranger]

Hi,

I am trying to achieve in-text citations of this form:

According to Smith (2005), Bibtex is hard to get your head around. Other people agree (Jones, 2009).

I need the actual bibliography to look like this:

Smith, J (2005), Title of the article, Journal title, Volume, Pages.

My testing source file looks like this:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{round}

\begin{document}
\cite{key} is here to test the application of Biblatex \citep{key}.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{Test}

\end{document}

And my BibTeX database file ("Test.bib") looks like this:

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@article{key,
author = {Jones, J.},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal Title},
year = {2005},
OPTkey = {•},
OPTvolume = {6},
OPTnumber = {•},
OPTpages = {555-557},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}

The in-text citations are fine, they come out as I want. But the Reference section says:

J.Jones. Title. Journal Title, 2005.

It doesn't even feature the volume number or page number. Whilst I need:

Jones, J. (2005), Title, Journal Title, Volume, Pages.

Any ideas? I am pretty new to this so would be very grateful for some help.

[hugovdberg]

I created a new topic on this yesterday, and now see your post again and realize we have a very much related problem. I was using the agu bibliography style which does come close to your requirements but unfortunately to my disliking sets the author names in the citations in italics.
For a long list of possible bibliography styles I would like to point you to this site: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/
However, while searching for a style that fits my needs I came across the following setup, and I think that's exactly what you're after as well:

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@BOOK{Masselink2011,
  author = {Masselink, Gerhard and Hughes, Micheal G. and Knight, Jasper},
  title = {Introduction to Coastal Processes \& Geomorphology},
  year = {2011},
  publisher = {Hodder Education},
}
@ARTICLE{Church1972,
  author = {Church, Michael and Ryder, June M.},
  title = {Paraglacial Sedimentation: A Consideration of Fluvial Processes Conditioned by Glaciation},
  journal = {Geological Society of America Bulletin},
  year = {1972},
  volume = {83},
  pages = {3059-3072},
  number = {10},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\citestyle{egu}

\begin{document}
The course is based on the text book by \citet{Masselink2011} and the article 
by \citet{Church1972}.
\bibliography{test}
\end{document}