[Tex/LaTex] the correct template for a “working paper” in Bib

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In economics, we often need to cite working paper not published yet.

I am just wondering if we should use @unpublishedor @report?

This is example I am writing in my bib file. Is it OK?

@unpublished{ChernozhukovFernandez-ValKowalski2014,
    author  = "Victor Chernozhukov and Iv{\'a}n Fern{\'a}ndez-Val and Amanda Kowalski",
    title   = "QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH CENSORING AND ENDOGENEITY",
    year    = "2014",
    note    = "Working paper",
}

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First off, since @report is not a recognized entry type in most bibliography styles, I wouldn't use it. Use @techreport instead.

The answer to your question depends crucially on how the paper is being circulated. If it's part of a working paper series or discussion paper series, it probably has some kind of information on the title page that identifies it as, say, a "National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper" along with a number. If so, you should enter its information using the @techreport entry type. If it does not, you're better off using the @unpublished entry type.

For the paper you mention, Amanda Kowalski's website notes that it was circulated in 2011 (not 2014) both as an NBER working paper and as a Cowles Foundation discussion paper. To reference the 2011 working paper version, I'd therefore use the @techreport entry type. Incidentally, the paper is also listed as "forthcoming" in the Journal of Econometrics; you might therefore choose the @article type and list its year as "forthcoming".

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[Tex/LaTex] add custom citation that differs in format than the rest

I suspect that even legal documents should be represented by a BibTeX entry with more than one field (and especially with a year field if one uses an author-year-style), but here goes.

I used the author instead of the title field because BibTeX otherwise would typeset the label V00 in the text.
The second pair of curly braces prevents BibTeX from breaking the "author" down in first name and last name.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{natbib}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{V00,
  author = {{\textit{Vodna direktiva (2000/60/EC)}}},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

As specified in \citet{V00} \dots

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Which publication type for forthcoming papers in BibTeX

For forthcoming articles of the sort that you give in your question, the easiest solution is to simply format them as article type, and then put "to appear" in the pages field. A forthcoming article won't have a page range yet, and when the article is published you will have to add the page range anyway. In the econ bibliography style, (and in fact most bibliography styles for article) the page range appears last in the entry, so it will be formatted as you wish.

Alternatively, (as pointed out in the comments) you can add the "to appear" as a note field. To do this in BibDesk, you need to do the following:

Open the entry for the article
In the Publication menu, choose Add Field
In the pulldown textbox, choose Note

This solution is semantically good, but in practice it may not be as robust as putting the "to appear" in the pages field, since the appearance of the field depends on the particular bibliography style you are using; if the style isn't set up to output the note field, then the problem will reappear.

(Another common way to do this is to not give a year, and replace the year field with "to appear". This will, of course, replace it in both bibliography and citations.)

For chapters in books, the incollection entry type should be used. The inbook entry (which may have been what you were using) is really designed for referring to a particular chapter of a single-authored or edited book; you're not likely to use it much at all, since most citations of that sort can be done using the book entry and adding the chapter reference to the citation command.

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