I'm quite new with LaTeX, but am trying to write my master's thesis with it.
I'm running into a problem with the bibliography style.
This is what the school asks for the reference style (with the abbreviation of journal names):
Gibson J.P. (1989) Selection strategies and artificial evolution.
Theor.
Appl. Genet. 78,87-92.
And in the text, the citation has to be "author, year" form.
I think that it's Vancouver style without numeration.
I used the natbib
package.
However, when I downloaded the Vancouver .bst
file from CTAN
after compiling, I cannot get the abbreviation of the Journal name.
The .bst
file I downloaded from Elsevier doesn't work either.
Does anybody have any ideas about how I can abbreviate journal names?
Best Answer
Based on our discussion in the comments, you created a new
.bst
file using thecustom-bib
package. This.bst
file then needs to be modified to be used with thejabbrv
package.It seems that the
.bib
files created bycustom-bib
package are a bit more sophisticated than the basic.bst
files assumed by the package, and the modification suggested in the package web site doesn't work. Thanks to some discussion in chat with Joseph Wright, here's a modified function that works:This function is added to the
.bst
file and the following line in the{article}
function of the.bst
fileis changed to
format.journal "journal" output.check
Name the new
.bst
filejabbrv_thesis
. I've put a copy here:Modified .bst file
Now you can use the
jabbrv
package to do the abbreviations. To do this you use:If there are particular journal names that you don't want abbreviated (e.g. Nature) then you need to edit the
jabbrv-ltwa-en.ldf
file (located in thejabbrv
folder) and comment out the\DefineJournalAbbreviation
lines for those names. If there words that aren't abbreviated, but should be, (these will show up in the warnings) then you need to add lines like the following to your document.