[OS X TeX] annotated bibliography

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 9, 2018, at 5:34 AM, Bridget Kane <kaneb at tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I’m hoping you can help me. I’m aiming to write an annotated bibliography and I found instructions on the following page:
> http://math.ucdenver.edu/~billups/courses/ma5779/annotated_bibliography.html
> 
> I have faithfully followed instructions, as far as I can tell, but Texshop says ‘cannot find stylefile’ when I try to run Bibtex.
> The file I’m using is plain-annote.bst  as detailed on the webpage link above.
> I’m using macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 (17H65) with Texshop Version 4.12 (4.12)
> 
> I have my .tex file in a folder with the plain-annote.bst and with my .bib file. 
> 
> Can you see what I may be doing wrong? Or any suggestions for me to try. I’m not an expert, but i’ve been using TexShop for some years now without much difficulty.
> 
> Many thanks in anticipation of your help
> 
> Bridget

Howdy,

I assume you are using the sample files at that web site. The sample file has used - instead of _ in the \bibliographystyle command. Change it from

\bibliographystyle{plain-annote}

to

\bibliographystyle{plain_annote}

which is the correct name for the .bst file.


Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)