Creating your own LaTeX Bibliography Format

August 14, 2006 by Isaac

Although there are about a million different bibliography formats for LaTeX, there are still times when you just need to customize your own. If you've ever looked at the bibliography definition files (.bst file) then you know that creating one from scratch is not something that you want to do. Fortunately, LaTeX often comes with Makebst. To run, type:

latex makebst

and follow the prompts. It asks load of questions, but most are pretty self-explanatory. Because of the enormous number of options it's not practical to walk through an example here.

To use the resulting file add the line:

\bibliographystyle{mystyle}

to your LaTeX source file. Of course substituting mystyle for whatever you called your new bibliography style.

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