[Tex/LaTex] BibTex – Show ISBN number

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Is it possible to show the ISBN/ISSN fields of books with BibTeX? For instance, I have the following entry on my .bib file:

@book{QueueSystems,
    author    = "Leonard Kleinrock",
    title     = "Queueing Systems. Volume 1: Theory",
    publisher = "Wiley-Interscience",
    year      = "1975",
    ISBN      = "0471491101"
}

With "plain" style, it's printed like this:

[11] Leonard Kleinrock. Queueing Systems. Volume 1: Theory. Wiley-Interscience, 1975.

I've tried several different styles with no success, and I can't seem to find any answer on this site or through Google…

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This is very easy with biblatex (at least as long one takes care of closing commas in .bib files):

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{QueueSystems,
    author    = "Leonard Kleinrock",
    maintitle     = "Queueing Systems",
    volume     = "1",     
    title     = "Theory",
    publisher = "Wiley-Interscience",
    year      = "1975",
    ISBN      = "0471491101",
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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For more information about "first steps" with biblatex see What to do to switch to biblatex?

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I finally managed to create a solution using biblatex. This package by default replaces recurring author or editor names with a dash, and the macros involved can be redefined to achieve "grouping by author":

Set the \bibnamesep length (which controls the spacing between different authors) to a positive value;
Redefine \bibnamedash (which is invoked to typset the "recurring" dash) to do nothing;
Create a new macro \authoryearpunct that a) starts a new line b) for this line, undoes the hanging indentation controlled by the \bibhang length c) capitalizes the following string (e.g. "Editor")
Insert this macro at the appropriate places (whenever author/editor names are actually typeset);
Reformat the year (brackets instead of braces, no period).

Annotations like "Editor" and "Translator" will be typeset at the start of the new line, which accounts for the possibility that the same person is author of one cited work and editor/translator of another.

EDIT: Your style example includes no works with editor instead of author. That said, it should be possible to put the "editor" annotation after the year (immediately before the title).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}

\setlength{\bibnamesep}{\baselineskip}
\renewcommand*{\bibnamedash}{}
\newcommand*{\authoryearpunct}{\\\hspace*{-\bibhang}\bibsentence}
\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addspace}

\makeatletter

\renewbibmacro*{date+extrayear}{%
  \iffieldundef{year}
    {}
%    {\printtext[parens]{\printdateextra}}}% DELETED
    {\printtext[brackets]{\printdateextra}}}% NEW

\renewbibmacro*{author}{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifuseauthor
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{author}}
  }
    {\usebibmacro{bbx:dashcheck}
       {\bibnamedash}
       {\usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}%
        \printnames{author}%
%   \iffieldundef{authortype}% DELETED
%     {\setunit{\addspace}}% DELETED
%     {\setunit{\addcomma\space}}}% DELETED
    \setunit{\authoryearpunct}}% NEW
     \iffieldundef{authortype}
       {}
       {\usebibmacro{authorstrg}%
    \setunit{\addspace}}}%
    {\global\undef\bbx@lasthash
     \usebibmacro{labeltitle}%
     \setunit*{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{date+extrayear}}

\renewbibmacro*{bbx:editor}[1]{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifuseeditor
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{editor}}
  }
    {\usebibmacro{bbx:dashcheck}
       {\bibnamedash}
       {\printnames{editor}%
%   \setunit{\addcomma\space}% DELETED
    \setunit{\authoryearpunct}% NEW
    \usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}}%
     \usebibmacro{#1}%
     \clearname{editor}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
    {\global\undef\bbx@lasthash
     \usebibmacro{labeltitle}%
     \setunit*{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{date+extrayear}}

\renewbibmacro*{bbx:translator}[1]{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifusetranslator
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{translator}}
  }
    {\usebibmacro{bbx:dashcheck}
       {\bibnamedash}
       {\printnames{translator}%
%   \setunit{\addcomma\space}% DELETED
    \setunit{\authoryearpunct}% NEW
    \usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}}%
     \usebibmacro{translator+othersstrg}%
     \clearname{translator}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
    {\global\undef\bbx@lasthash
     \usebibmacro{labeltitle}%
     \setunit*{\addspace}}%
  \usebibmacro{date+extrayear}}

\makeatother

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{a01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@misc{a02,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {A title that goes to great lengthts in expounding the matter at hand and therefore doesn't fit into one line},
}
@misc{b03,
  editor = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Bravo},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

EDIT: Somehow this worked without the \makeatletter-\makeatother combo. Added nevertheless.

[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX stopped building a BibTeX bibliography, how to troubleshoot it

Summarised (and expanded) from comments above:

BibTeX uses the aux file written by LaTeX (showing where you want to cite what) together with a bst file (containing stylistic information - such as plain.bst) and a bib file (containing bibliographic information about any document you might want to reference). So a workflow from the command line might look like

latex - to generate the aux file
bibtex - to generate a bbl file which contains information about the specific references mentioned in the aux file, formatted correctly
latex - to incorporate the information in the bbl file into your typeset document
possibly latex again, to fix any cross-referencing problems introduced when all the citations were included

Looking at the aux and bbl files along the way - and, as @Joseph pointed out, the blg file which is BibTeX's log - can help to troubleshoot problems.

For completeness as an answer: on this occasion it apparently turned out that the bibtex step wasn't working due to a typo in the name of the bst file.

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