[Tex/LaTex] remove “pp.” from references produced by chicago style, re-position page numbers

bibtexchicago-stylenatbib

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usepackage{longtable}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\setcitestyle{notesep={: }}

I want to (i) remove parentheses and put full stop behind eds., (ii) change the comma after the title to a full stop, (iii) remove "pp." and put pages numbers at the back and (iv) after publisher (and before the page numbers) should be : rather than .

I guess I should go change "chicago.bst" but I do not find where I should make the changes.

@incollection{Ballwieser-global-history-2010,
booktitle={A Global History of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Public Policy: Europe},
author={Wolfgang Ballwieser},
title={Germany},
pages={59-88},
editor={Previts, G.J. and Walton, P.J. and Wolnizer, P.W.},
year={2010},
address={United Kingdom},
publisher={Emerald Group Publishing Limited},
}

Ballwieser, W. (2010). Germany. In G. Previts, P. Walton, and P.
Wolnizer (Eds.), A Global History of Accounting, Financial Reporting
and Public Policy: Europe. pp. 59–88. United Kingdom: Emerald Group
Publishing Limited.

The following is what I am looking for

Ballwieser, W. (2010). Germany. In G. Previts, P. Walton, and P.
Wolnizer, eds. A Global History of Accounting, Financial Reporting
and Public Policy: Europe. United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing
Limited: 59–88.

Best Answer

In the code below, I show how you can edit the file chicago.bst -- rename it to mychicago.bst in the process, please -- to remove the string pp. before the page range.

For all other modifications you're looking to achieve, I think you're much better off not trying to hack an existing .bst file. Instead, you should look to crate a new, custom bibliography style file from scratch with the help of the makebst utility (part of the custom-bib package). At a command prompt, type latex makebst and follow the detailed prompts; at the end of the long series of prompts, type "y" to instruct the utility to create the .bst file. :-)

Back to the (relatively) simple task of suppressing the string pp. in front of page ranges:

  • Find the file chicago.bst in your TeX distribution, make a copy, and name the copy (say) mychicago.bst. Do not edit an original file directly.

  • Open the file mychicago.bst in a plain-text editor.

  • Find the function format.pages (ca. l. 680 in my copy of the bst file)

  • A few lines down from the function's header line, locate the lines

        { "pp.\ " pages n.dashify tie.or.space.connect } % gnp - removed ()
    { "pp.\ " pages tie.or.space.connect }

    and replace them with

        { pages n.dashify tie.or.space.connect } % gnp - removed ()
    { pages tie.or.space.connect }

  • Save the file, and start using it via the instruction \bibliographystyle{mychicago}.

That said, I really do recommend that you run the makebst utility and, when answering some of the prompts, simply specify that no pp. strings should be used.

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