[wplug] Bibtex question

[John Harrold]

Sometime in December Doug Green assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| No, I just want it in the bibliography (in the references). I don't  
| want a run-on list of authors when there are like 20 authors of a  
| paper... how do I do that?
| 
| Thanks!
| Doug

i spoke with someone with a little more expirence than i with this sort of
thing. it seems that the tetex distribution (the one that comes with unix)
has a utility which can be used to construct custom .bst files. where the
.bst file describes the formatting of references. in order to generate it i
believe you need to run latex on makebst.tex. so the first thing you need
to do is locate 'makebst.tex':

$ locate makebst.tex

on redhat 9 this should return something like:

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/custom-bib/makebst.tex

copy this to a local directory and run:

$ latex makebst.tex

evidentally it will ask you questions and i belive generate something which
can get you a bstfile. then in your document you will put something like:

\bibliographystyle{mystyle}

where your bst file is named mystyle.bst.

if you have a copy of kopka and daly, there is a section in appendix b (of
the third edition) titled 'customizing bibliography styles'. this gives a
description of what you can accomplish and one of the bullets is "number of
author names to include before giving et al.".

i hope this helps.

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