biblatexbibtex
I cut-and-paste my bib file entries using websites' "export citation" buttons (e.g., jstor or ssrn.com), often these come with an "abstract" entry. But I've never seen any bibtex or harvard.sty documentation that tells me how to input this into my tex file.
Is this possible? Or can I make my bibliography section include the abstract? Thanks!
As the comments have mentioned, I would recommend against maintaining a bibliography with the abbreviations done by hand. This is exactly the sort of automatic thing that bibtex should be doing for you. That said, I don't know how to control this sort of thing with bibtex. I seem to remember that natbib did automatically truncate author lists, but I can't remember how much control it gave you. (indeed, this could well have been one of the things that made me move to biblatex...)
The biblatex solution would simply be to set maxnames=4 as a package option. Incidentally, biblatex is no longer in beta: v1.0 was uploaded to CTAN yesterday.
Here's a biblatex solution that satisfies your main requirement -- a combination of local bibliographies and a global one, with congruent local/global entry labels. However, instead of individual .bib files for each section I use a global file including special keywords fields to indicate an entry's affiliation with one or several sections.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\defbibheading{subbibforsec}[\refname\ for section~\thesection]{%
\subsection*{#1}}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
keywords = {foo,bar},
author = {Author, A.},
year = {2001},
title = {Alpha},
}
@misc{B02x,
keywords = {foo},
author = {Buthor, B.},
year = {2002},
title = {Bravo},
}
@misc{B02y,
keywords = {bar},
author = {Buthor, B.},
year = {2002},
title = {Bravissimo},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\nocite{*}
\begin{document}
\section{Foo}
Some text \autocite{B02x}.
\printbibliography[heading=subbibforsec,keyword=foo]
\section{Bar}
Some text \autocite{B02y}.
\printbibliography[heading=subbibforsec,keyword=bar]
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Best Answer
The
biblatexpackage includes areadingstyle that will include abstracts into the (specially formatted) bibliography.(The filecontents environment is only used to include some external files directly into the example, so that it compiles. It is not necessary for the solution.)