[OS X TeX] Installing the Harvard Package

[François Briatte]

Dear all,

Alan's guide to installation worked for me. Thanks!

Which raises a new question…

I thought the Harvard package would give references the same
formatting as is asked here:
http://www.politicalstudies.org/styleguide.asp

It did not. So, following Alan's advice, I tested natbib, which I
remember using in the past, but never with BibDesk. The formatting is
still not what I am looking for.

To keep it simple, anyone knows a style that would give the following
formattings?

*

Hello World (Rawls, 1971).

…

Harmer, H. T. (1999) The Longman Companion to the Labour Party
1900-1998. London: Longman.

Abrahams, P. (1998) 'Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State', Journal of
Historical Sociology, 1 (1), 15-21.

*

Just to wap everything up, my real concern may be that overall, I am
looking a style which does not exist. In which case I will feel sorry
for bothering the list!

François


On 11/14/06, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
> At 7:16 PM +0000 11/14/06, François Briatte wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I have recently installed TeX on my MacBook, OSX 10.4.8. I am now
> >trying to install the Harvard package (I am quite dependent on this
> >package, i.e. I cannot just switch to another one).
> >
> >(a)
> >
> >I have created the following folder hierarchy: ~/texmf/tex/harvard and
> >dropped the contents of the harvard.zip archive (downloaded from CTAN)
> >into it.
> >
> >(b)
> >
> >When I launch BibDesk and ask to preview my references using harvard
> >as BibTeX style, I get a long error log, copied below.
> >
> >(c)
> >
> >I did not modify the BibDesk TeX template, I did not modify my TeX
> >install (Basic install from Wierda's i-installer).
> >
> >
> >- Am I doing something wrong in (a) or (b) or even (c) ?
> >- Is there an incompatibility between the package and my hardware, OS,
> >software choices?
> >- Does anyone know the situation?
> >- How can I get the package to work?
> >
> >Many thanks for any tips or workarounds.
> >
> >FB
>
> Just to be clear on what you have done and what
> you are doing.  The following is what should be
> installed where for the harvard package and where
> (assuming an installation in texmf.local (if you
> put these in your ~/Library folder then the paths
> would read ~/Library/texmf/ in place of
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ (i.e. the
> other folders should exist or be constructed.)
> (Only the first block of files is critical for
> the package to work.)
>
>   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bib/harvard/harvard.bib
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/agsm.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/apsr.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/dcu.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/jmr.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/jphysicsB.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/kluwer.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/nederlands.bst
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/harvard/harvard.sty
>
> documentation files:
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/harvard/harvard.dvi
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/harvard/README
> source files:
>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/source/harvard-src.cab
>
> To USE the harvard package, you need to do two things:
>
> You need a \usepackage{harvard} in your preamble (this loads the harvard style)
> You need to select a bibliography style from the
> list above (i.e. one of the bst files).  There is
> no harvard bib syle per se, only .bst files that
> correspond to particular journals or associations
> etc. (There may be others available that are
> compatible with the harvard style as well, but
> these are not included with the package.)
>
> The bibliography can be invoked with the
> bibliographystyle command in your document, or
> passed as an option in the \usepackage command
> (e.g. \usepackage[kluwer]{harvard})
>
> Then everything should work.
>
> Alan
>
> P.S.  I've found that natbib offers all of the
> same functionality of harvard but with a lot more
> flexibility (like custom bib), so unless you
> absolutely need harvard (and not just the
> functionality of Author/Year citations), you
> might want to look into the natbib documentation.
>
> --
> Alan Munn
> amunn at msu.edu
> Department of Linguistics
> and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages   Fax.  +1-517-432-2736
> Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824       Tel.  +1-517-355-7491
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