[Tex/LaTex] How to show the location of a conference in BibTeX

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I have a bibliography of sources in computer science, many of which are conference papers. For these, I use the inproceedings entry type. This includes an "optional" or "nonstandard" location field, which is where I and my lab colleagues have always stored the location where the conference had taken place. However, none of the styles I have tried to use so far display the location field. So I have two questions:

What styles show the location field, at least for an inproceedings entry?
How does one normally or usually show the location of a conference, if the location field doesn't work with the usual styles (e.g., plain, ams, ieeetr, amsplain)? Do you use the address field?

Best Answer

The styles aomalpha.bst and aomplain.bst that I've updated and currently support for The Annals of Mathematics have VENUE field for conference proceedings.

If the bib style does not have VENUE, I usually put the location in the ADDRESS field - there is a certain abuse of the field since it is supposed to be the publisher's address, but this probably can be forgiven. For example,

@Proceedings{ION-GPS-94,
   title =        {ION GPS-94 Proceedings},
   year =         1994,
   booktitle =    {ION GPS-94 Proceedings},
   number =       7,
   series =       {International Technical Meeting of
              The Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation},
   month =        {September},
   address =      {Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT},
   organization = {Institute of Navigation}
}

Of course, VENUE field is better :)

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[Tex/LaTex] Bibtex: unsrt and crossref

This is a well known design flaw of the BibTeX database format:

inproceedings entries have to provide both, the title field – which defines the title of the respective paper and the booktitle field, which gives the title of, well, the proceedings book.
When you crossref to another entry in BibTex, all fields that have not been set so far are taken from the referred entry. Hence, referring from inproceedings to proceedings imports all fields, but title, which has already been used for the paper title. Afterwards, BibTeX complaints if booktitle is (still) missing.
proceedings entries, however, need their title (like other books) to be given by the title field. It is taken if you refer directly to a proceedings book (like \cite{stackexchange/tex/23122}) or the style does it automatically (to shorten your inproceedings entries).

So the general (but ugly) recommendation (e.g., given by WikiPedia) to be able to use proceedings entries stand-alone as well as crossrefed by inproceedings entries is to state the title twice: once as title and once as booktitle.

Edit:

A less ugly solution to this problem is provided by switching from traditional BibTex to biblatex with the biber backend, as explained in the answer by lockstep.

[Tex/LaTex] Customizing BibDesk’s preview style to include DOIs

From what I gather, previewtemplate.tex is just a skeleton file for BibDesk to call LaTeX.

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}

%% I cut details

\begin{document}
\nocite{<<CiteKeys>>}          % <<CiteKeys>> is replaced by the selected entries' keys
\bibliography{<<File>>}        % <<File>> by the path to the opened .bib file
\bibliographystyle{<<Style>>}  % <<Style>> is replaced by the style set in the preferences  
\end{document}

It just happens that none of the bibliographystyle listed by BibDesk default prints the DOI. You should either find or write your own TeX bibliography style.

If you already have your own .bst, you can put it where TeX will find it (see LaTeX can't find my .bst file. How do I show it the way?) and set BibDesk’s preferences (Preferences > TeX Preview > BibTeX Style) accordingly. You can also put your .bst whereever you want if you set BibTeX Style to its full path.

An alternative solution: BibDesk templates

You could try to use BibDesk’s own export templates. You can write them within BibDesk (File > New/Open Template) or in plain text, RTF or even .doc, RSS, HTML...

You might want to copy and edit BibDesk default templates (in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/Templates). But they tend to display everything.

Once you have a satisfying template, you add it to BibDesk preferences (File > Preferences > Templates). You can now select the entries your interested in and export them (File > Export...). Your template should appear in the list of File formats.

If you really want to copy/paste, your custom templates should also appear in the menus (Presentation > [Side/Lower] Preview). Text templates don’t, but if you declare them as RTF (File > Preferences > Templates, the Role entry in the table), everything is fine again.

An example

A (very minimal, created within BibDesk) template would be:

<$publications>
<$fields.Title?><$fields.Title/>, </$fields.Title?><$fields.Year?><$fields.Year/>, </$fields.Year?><$urls.Doi.absoluteString/></$publications>

When run on the following .bib file:

@book{Perec:1989,
    Author = {Perec, Georges},
    Doi = {10.978.207/0715237},
    Title = {La Disparition},
    Year = {1989}}

it generates:

La Disparition, 1989, http://dx.doi.org/10.978.207/0715237