I am trying to use IEEE bibliography style with LaTeX. I am using MiKTeX 2.9 and I thought it would be as easy as all of the other packages, just install from the manager and then \usepackage{ieeetran} and then \bibliography{ieeetran}
I'm quite new to this, to be honest I don't even know the proper name to put in the curly brackets and it's not obvious from some of the documentation. Please let me know what other information you might need.
[Tex/LaTex] File `ieeetran.sty’ not found – trying to use IEEE bibliography style with bibtex
bibtexieeetran
Related Solutions
The biblatex-mla package seems to do a good job with basic MLA style citations and bibliographies. Here is an example of how to use it. You need to run latex biber latex latex to get everything to look right.
Update (July, 2016)
It seems that development of biblatex-mla has resumed. Using the latest version on CTAN this example compiles properly. I would strongly recommend you update your TeX distribution to TL 2016 instead of manually installing the package, since there have been many changes to both biblatex and biber which will also need to be updated, so manual updating will likely lead to package dependency conflicts.
Various previous problems with biblatex-mla may have been fixed with this new version, so the warning on the previous version of this answer may not apply.
Previous Warning
As the comments have mentioned, and also this question: biblatex-mla sometimes \autocite[prenote][pg]{key} is not printing the author's name there seem to be significant problems with biblatex-mla which hasn't been updated for some time. It may need to be used with biblatex version 1.0.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{mla-test-bib.bib}
@article{Kavanaugh1976,
Author = {Kavanaugh, Robert D.},
Journal = {Child Development},
Month = {Sep},
Number = {3},
Pages = {885-887},
Title = {On the Synonymity of `more' and `less': Comments on a Methodology},
Volume = {47},
Year = {1976}}
@book{Saussure1995,
Author = {Ferdinand de Saussure},
Publisher = {Payot},
Title = {Cours de Linguistique G{\'e}n{\'e}rale},
Year = {1995}}
\end{filecontents} % This is the end of the sample bibliography
\addbibresource{mla-test-bib.bib} % you would use your own bib file here
\begin{document}
This is a citation. \autocite{Saussure1995}. Another citation \autocite{Kavanaugh1976}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
If you need footnote citations, use the package option autocite=footnote and add the following code to your preamble (based on the solution posted here: Biblatex-mla gives me a \smartcite error).
\DeclareAutoCiteCommand{footnote}[f]{\footcite}{\footcites}
If you need to change the title of the bibliography to something other than "Works Cited", add the following code to your preamble:
\defbibheading{bibliography}{%
\section*{Bibliography}} %use \chapter* if the bibliography will be a chapter
The problem seemed to be an incorrect installation of the elsarticle package. MikTex tries to install the package from the CTAN repository, but the elsarticle package on CTAN is out of date. The most up to date version is available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsarticle. In order to correctly install it one should download the .zip file, then create a "C:\Local Tex Files" directory and follow the instructions here (Q2 at http://docs.miktex.org/faq/maintenance.html#styfiles) and here (http://docs.miktex.org/manual/localadditions.html) in order to make the correct directory structure and place the .sty, .cls, and .bst files in the appropriate sub-directories (follow instructions after Fig. 4.4 on the second link), and finally register the directory (the rest of the instructions under the second link).
Best Answer
You cannot load the
IEEEtranpackage as the installation through the MikTeX package manager doesn't contain a style package (see list of files under properties in manager entry).As suggested in the IEEEtran_bst_HOWTO.pdf, the following command lines may be used at your bibliography,
where the former command is to inform LaTeX to change the bibliography style to
IEEEtranand the latter command may be used to input the file name(s) of your.bibfile.