[OS X TeX] Chicago Manual of Style

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 3, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Nathan Paxton wrote:

> 	I am eminently familiar with the vagaries of Chicago, as my field  
> is pretty much a Chicago field.
>
> 	McBride is pretty good, but it's not fabulous on URLs or DOIs. I  
> have a modified/home-cooked version of mcbride.bst (which has some  
> other slight departures from CMS 15) that I can post if people would  
> like.
>
> Best,
> -Nathan
> ----------
> Nathan A. Paxton
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Dept. of Government, Harvard University
>
> Resident Tutor
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>
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> On 3 Jul 2009, at 3:52 AM, Pierfranco Minsenti wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think that for those wishing to use the Chicago Manual of Style  
>> the mcbride style is recommended because it was developed by Ken  
>> Shan for improving the original chicago.bst. The last version was  
>> updated in 2007.
>> Se the presentation page at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/wiki/ken/McBride 
>>  where you can also download che mcbride.bst file.
>> In the bibliography section mcbride.bst  don't put brackets around  
>> the publication year.
>>
>> Here you can see is an examle of the output of two references as  
>> they appear in the final PDF: the first one from a book and the  
>> second one from a journal article:
>>
>> Pickard, Alison Jane. 2007. Research methods in information. London:
>> Facet.
>>
>> Powell, RR, LM Baker, and JJ Mika. 2002. Library and information
>> science practitioners and research. Library and Information Science  
>> Research
>> 24(1):49–72.
>>
>> As you may see:
>>
>> 1) authors first names are full, not only initials, provided in you  
>> bibtex file you have put them;
>>
>> 2) no brackets around publication year
>>
>> 3) article title without quotation marks
>>
>> 4) journal title in italics.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Pierfranco
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/7/2 Salvatore Enrico Indiogine <hindiogine at gmail.com>
>>
>> Adam:
>>
>> 2009/7/2 Adam M. Goldstein <a.m.goldstein at mac.com>:
>> > Do you have a copy of the manual? It does look Chicago-like, but  
>> I couldn't
>> > say whether it's exactly how the Manual describes the formatting.  
>> Actually
>> > there are several distinct styles, depending upon whether  
>> footnotes or
>> > in-text citation is used, and whether a reference list is used.
>>
>> I know very little about the Chicago style.  However, from the
>> examples I have seen on the WWW, there is no parenthesis around the
>> year of publication in the bibliography.
>>
>> The bibliography that I am generating now has those parenthesis, just
>> as in APA format.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Enrico
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Enrico Indiogine
>>
>> Mathematics Education
>> Texas A&M University
>>
>> Email: hindiogine at gmail.com
>> Skype: hindiogine
>> Website: http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~enrico
>>
>> "Rien ne va de soi.  Rien n'est donné. Tous est construit."   Gaston
>> Bachelard, 1934


Howdy,

Would you be willing to submit it to CTAN?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)