BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ where to save the custombib ".bst" file...

[abeille2]

Hello everyone!

Latex is great, just started using it and already love it. Can't go back to Word!

I just used the tool "makebst.tex" to produce a customized bibliography style (would like to configure one for each journal I might have to submit to), but after having saved the "customPRSB.bst" output file in all possible suitable directories, such as application data --> MikTex--> 2.8 --> bibtex--> bst--> natbib, or program files --> miktex --> bibtex --> bst, when I call it in my tex document \bibliographystyle{customPRSB}, I keep getting the "I couldn't open style file customPRSB.bst", and none of my citations are therefore recognized (format \citep{bibtexkey})!!

Either can you help me finding what's wrong (that would be the best because if this works, it's so easy to use!!) with this makebst, or please give me a tip on how to modify the plainnat.bst in order to get FIRST the authors' surnames, and THEN their initials (and not full first names) in the reference list (instead of full first names and then last name, as per default in plainnat)??
ex: Ainley,D. G., O’Connor, E. G. & Boekelheide, R. J. 1984 The marine ecology of birds in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.Ornithological Monographs N832. Washington, DC:
Amercian Ornithologists’ Union.

At least will get me going for a while! Many thanX!

[gmedina]

Hi,

did you refresh the File Name Data Base? By the way, these customised files will be lost after unstalling MiKTeX for updating to a new version. Perhaps you should keep a personal TDS directory, and save those files in it. Read the section Integrating Local Additions in the MiKTeX manual.

[abeille2]

Hi back,

I don't find this option in the Texnic center display, so I'm not sure how to do it. But I have closed and reopened the document and Texnic Center several times, still doesn't read it... Any idea?

Thanks for the advice on having a personal directory, will do.

[gmedina]

I don't find this option in the Texnic center display...

the FNDB belongs to MiKTeX not to TeXnicCenter. I don't have a Windows box at hand, but go to

Start->All Programs->MiKTeX2.8->Setings

(or something similar)

and then click on "Refresh FNDB".

[abeille2]

Thank YOU! (it worked)