[Tex/LaTex] BibTex style database

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There are a couple of great tutorials and tools in the internet for making your customized style for a given journal, for example there is bst generator website, dozen of examples for different journal tastes, and so on.

However, having migrated from Endnote to BibTex and LaTex recently, I was wondering whether there is any convenient bst database for BibTex. For example, Endnote provides style database that you only need to know journal name and no further technical details.

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It should be more a comment than an answer but I do not have enough rep to comment.

I was managing the bst database at bst.maururu.net but do not have enough time to continue doing so. Of course, I kept a dump of the db, the code of the website and, most importantly, the archive of all styles. To host it, one would need a web server with MySQL and PHP, at their most basic versions.

I would be happy to transfer all that to anyone willing to handle it. Thank you in advance for your help!

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Have a look at biber which in the current 1.5 dev version on SourceForge has a new "tool" mode which allows you to use biber's reencoding and source mapping features independently of biblatex. The source mapping features are what you mainly need from your description and this is all documented in the PDF manual. I can provide specific examples if you have specific questions. biber will do everything you mention above apart from the @string expansion which would be possible to add but as you say, it's fairly idiosyncratic.

Of course, you can do this dynamically with biber too - with the changes being applied as the .bib is read but the .bib is not touched. The new tool mode allows you to write the changed .bib to another file without writing a .bbl.

For example, here is how in tool mode to tackle points 2, 3 5 and 6 in your examples. Point 1 is better handled semantically with biblatex and its max/min names options. Create a biber.conf with:

<config>
  <sourcemap>
    <maps datatype="bibtex" map_overwrite="1">
      <map>
        <map_step map_field_set="issn" map_null="1"/>
      </map>
      <map>
        <per_type>ARTICLE</per_type>
        <map_step map_field_set="title" map_null="1"/>
      </map>
      <map>
        <per_type>ARTICLE</per_type>
        <map_step map_field_source="pages" map_final="1"/>
        <map_step map_field_set="archiveprefix" map_null="1"/>
        <map_step map_field_set="eprint" map_null="1"/>
        <map_step map_field_set="primaryclss" map_null="1"/>
      </map>
    </maps>
    <map>
      <map_step map_field_source="doi" map_match="[\\;]" map_final="1"/>
      <map_step map_field_set="doi" map_null="1"/>
    </map>
  </sourcemap>
</config>

Then run biber with

biber --tool file.bib

Which will look in the default locations for your biber.conf and will output a file called file_bibertool.bib.

This is also all possible, as I said, dynamically using the biber.conf as you process the file normally into a .bbl with biber and also the whole mapping functionality is available in biblatex through macros (see \DeclareSourcemap in the biblatex documentation) if you wanted to do this on a per-document basis dynamically.

[Tex/LaTex] How to use BibTeX to cite a web page

A simple way of doing it in BibTeX is with a @misc entry:

@misc{WinNT,
  title = {{MS Windows NT} Kernel Description},
  howpublished = {\url{http://web.archive.org/web/20080207010024/http://www.808multimedia.com/winnt/kernel.htm}},
  note = {Accessed: 2010-09-30}
}

You should also perhaps include an author if you know it. And remember to load a package such as hyperref or url.

If you are using BibLaTeX there is an @online entry type:

@online{WinNT,
  author = {MultiMedia LLC},
  title = {{MS Windows NT} Kernel Description},
  year = 1999,
  url = {http://web.archive.org/web/20080207010024/http://www.808multimedia.com/winnt/kernel.htm},
  urldate = {2010-09-30}
}

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