I am using the natbib package and chicago style to create my reference list. Some of the references in the bib file contain a field called "note" which is printed if I use the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\bibliography{test}
\end{document}
The bib references look like this:
@article{hambrick_influence_1996,
title = {The Influence of Top Management Team Heterogeneity on Firms' Competitive Moves},
volume = {41},
copyright = {Copyright © 1996 Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University},
issn = {0001-8392},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2393871},
doi = {10.2307/2393871},
number = {4},
journal = {Administrative Science Quarterly},
author = {Hambrick, Donald C. and Cho, Theresa Seung and Chen, {Ming-Jer}},
month = dec,
year = {1996},
note = {{ArticleType:} research-article / Full publication date: Dec., 1996 / Copyright © 1996 Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University},
pages = {659--684}
}
How do I suppress this "note" field? Another follow-up question: is there a way to suppress the "month" field in the printed reference?
Thanks!
Best Answer
The bibliography style file
chicago.bst
is quite ancient; according to the header information given in the file, it was last updated in 1992 [!]. If you're stuck withchicago.bst
, though, you may want to do the following:Find the file
chicago.bst
in your file system (likely under../bibtex/bst/chicago
, where..
is the root of the TeX distribution), make a copy and call the new file, say,mychicago.bst
.Open
mychicago.bst
in your favorite text editorSearch for the function
FUNCTION {output.year.check}
(it starts on line 266 in my copy of this file). In this function, replace the linewith
(I.e., make BibTeX do the same thing whether or not a
month
field is present in a given entry.)Regarding how (not) to process the contents of a
note
field (assuming one is present): For this case, I recommend that you go through each of the 12 instances of so of the following two linesand choose which instances you want to comment out (using
%
, as usual) and which ones you want to keep. I could imagine you'd want to comment out these instructions for entries of type@article
and@book
, whereas you may well want to keep them for entries of type@misc
and@unpublished
.Save the file and update the TeX filename database if necessary. E.g., if you use TeXLive or MacTeX, you could type
texhash
at a command prompt.Use the bibliography style
mychicago
from now on.