So for the curious, below is a makebst session log. There are a ton of
questions to answer, and I got a bit tired after awhile and just kept
hitting return to get the defaults. But this does give some insight into
the most common kinds of configuration needed, and the likely variability.
BTW, in an example like:
Do you want a description of the usage? (NO)
\yn=
… the blank after the “\yn=” means I selected the default.***********************************
- This is Make Bibliography Style *
It makes up a docstrip batch job to produce
a customized .bst file for running with BibTeX
Do you want a description of the usage? (NO)
\yn=
Enter the name of the MASTER file (default=merlin.mbs)
\mfile=
Name of the final OUTPUT .bst file? (default extension=bst)
\ofile=test
Give a comment line to include in the style file.
Something like for which journals it is applicable.
\ans=This is a test style to see how makebst works.
\openout3 = `test.dbj’.
Do you want verbose comments? (NO)
\yn=
(./merlin.mbs
<<< For more information about the meanings of
<<< the various options, see the section on
<<< Menu Information in the .mbs file documentation.
EXTERNAL FILES:
Name of language definition file (default=merlin.mbs)
\cfile=
Name of language file: \cfile=.
Include file(s) for extra journal names? (NO)
\yn=
No included files.
INTERNAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT (if no external language file)
(*) English words used explicitly
(b) Babel (words replaced by commands defined in babelbst.tex)
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: English
STYLE OF CITATIONS:
(*) Numerical as in standard LaTeX
(a) Author-year with some non-standard interface
(b) Alpha style, Jon90 or JWB90 for single or multiple authors
(o) Alpha style, Jon90 even for multiple authors
(f) Alpha style, Jones90 (full name of first author)
© Cite key (special for listing contents of bib file)
Select:
\ans=a
You have selected: Author-year
AUTHOR–YEAR SUPPORT SYSTEM (if author-year citations)
(*) Natbib for use with natbib v5.3 or later
(o) Older Natbib without full authors citations
(l) Apalike for use with apalike.sty
(h) Harvard system with harvard.sty
(a) Astronomy system with astron.sty
© Chicago system with chicago.sty
(n) Named system with named.sty
(d) Author-date system with authordate1-4.sty
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\ans=l
You have selected: Apalike
LANGUAGE FIELD
(*) No language field
(l) Add language field to switch hyphenation patterns temporarily
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\ans=
You have selected: No language field
ANNOTATIONS:
(*) No annotations will be recognized
(a) Annotations in annote field or in .tex file of citekey name
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You have selected: No annotations
PRESENTATIONS:
(*) Do not add presentation type for conference talks
§ Add presentation, speaker not highlighted
(b) Presentation, speaker bold face
(i) Presentaion, speaker italic
© Presentaion, speaker in small caps
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\ans=p
You have selected: Add presentation, speaker not highlighted
ORDERING OF REFERENCES (if author-year citations)
(*) Alphabetical by all authors
(l) By label (Jones before Jones and James before Jones et al)
(k) By label and cite key instead of label and title, as above
(d) Year ordered and then by authors (for publication lists)
® Reverse year ordered and then by authors (most recent first)
© Citation order (unsorted, only meaningful for numericals)
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\ans=
You have selected: Alphabetical
ORDER ON VON PART (if not citation order)
(*) Sort on von part (de la Maire before Defoe)
(x) Sort without von part (de la Maire after Mahone)
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\ans=
You have selected: Sort on von part
AUTHOR NAMES:
(*) Full, surname last (John Frederick Smith)
(f) Full, surname first (Smith, John Frederick)
(i) Initials + surname (J. F. Smith)
® Surname + initials (Smith, J. F.)
(s) Surname + dotless initials (Smith J F)
(w) Surname + comma + spaceless initials (Smith, J.F.)
(x) Surname + pure initials (Smith JF)
(y) Surname + comma + pure initials (Smith, JF)
(z) Surname + spaceless initials (Smith J.F.)
(a) Only first name reversed, initials (AGU style: Smith, J. F., H. K.
Jones)
(b) First name reversed, with full names (Smith, John Fred, Harry Kab Jones)
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\ans=w
You have selected: Surname + comma + spaceless initials
JUNIOR PART IN THE CITATION (if author-year citations)
(*) No junior' part in the citations but in the ref listing (j)Junior’ in citations as well as in ref listing
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You have selected: No `junior’ part in the citations
PUNCTUATION BETWEEN AUTHOR NAMES:
(*) Author names separated by commas
(s) Names separated by semi-colon
(h) Names separated by slash /
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\ans=
You have selected: Author names separated by commas
ADJACENT REFERENCES WITH REPEATED NAMES:
(*) Author/editor names always present
(d) Repeated author/editor names replaced by dash
(2) Repeated author/editor names replaced by 2 dashes
(3) Repeated author/editor names replaced by 3 dashes
Select:
\ans=2
You have selected: Repeated author/editor names replaced by 2 dashes
NUMBER OF AUTHORS IN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
(*) All authors included in listing
(l) Limited authors (et al replaces missing names)
Select:
\ans=l
You have selected: Limited authors
Maximum number of authors (1-99)
\num=6
You have selected maximum 6 authors
Minimum number (before et al given) (1-6)
\num=3
You have selected minimum 3 authors
AUTHORS IN CITATIONS:
(*) One author et al for three or more authors
(m) Some other truncation scheme
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\ans=
You have selected: One author et al
TYPEFACE FOR AUTHORS IN LIST OF REFERENCES:
(*) Normal font for author names
(s) Small caps authors (\sc)
(i) Italic authors (\it or \em)
(b) Bold authors (\bf)
(u) User defined author font (\bibnamefont)
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\ans=
You have selected: Normal font for author names
FONT OF CITATION LABELS IN TEXT (if author-year citations)
(*) Cited authors plain as result of \cite command
(i) Cited authors italic
(s) Cited authors small caps
(b) Cited authors bold
(u) User defined citation font (\citenamefont)
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\ans=
You have selected: Cited authors plain
FONT OF EXTRA LABEL (The extra letter on the year)
(*) Extra label plain
(i) Extra label italic
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\ans=
You have selected: Extra label plain
LABEL WHEN AUTHORS MISSING (if author-year citations)
(*) Year blank when KEY replaces missing author (for natbib 7.0)
(y) Year included when KEY replaces missing author
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\ans=
You have selected: Year blank when KEY replaces missing author
MISSING DATE (if author-year citations)
(*) Missing date set to ??? in label and text
(b) Missing date left blank
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\ans=
You have selected: Missing date set to ???
DATE POSITION:
(*) Date at end
(b) Date after authors
(j) Date part of journal spec. (as 1994;45:34-40) else at end
(e) Date at very end after any notes
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\ans=b
You have selected: Date after authors
DATE FORMAT (if author-year citations)
(*) Year plain without any brackets
§ Year in parentheses as (1993)
(b) Year in brackets as [1993]
© Year preceded by colon as : 1993' (d) Year preceded by period as. 1993’
(m) Date preceded by comma as , 1993' (s) Year preceded by space only, as 1993’
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\ans=m
You have selected: Date preceded by comma
INCLUDE MONTHS:
(*) Date is year only without the month
(m) Include month in date
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\ans=
You have selected: Date is year only
DATE PUNCTUATION (if date not at end)
(*) Date with standard block punctuation (comma or period)
© Colon after date as 1994:
(s) Semi-colon after date as 1994;
§ Period after date even when blocks use commas
(x) No punct. after date
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\ans=
You have selected: Date with standard block punctuation
BLANK AFTER DATE:
(*) Space after date and punctuation
(x) No space after date as 1994:45
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\ans=x
You have selected: No space after date
DATE FONT:
(*) Date in normal font
(b) Date in bold face
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\ans=
You have selected: Date in normal font
TRUNCATE YEAR (if author-year citations)
(*) Year text full as 1990–1993 or `in press’
(t) Year truncated to last 4 digits
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\ans=
You have selected: Year text full
TITLE OF ARTICLE:
(*) Title plain with no special font
(i) Title italic (\em)
(q) Title and punctuation in single quotes (Title,' ..) (d) Title and punctuation in double quotes (``Title,'' ..) (g) Title and punctuation in guillemets (<<Title,>> ..) (x) Title in single quotes (Title’, …)
(y) Title in double quotes (``Title’’, …)
(z) Title in guillemets (<>, …)
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\ans=d
You have selected: Title and punctuation in double quotes
COLLECTION/PROCEEDINGS TITLES (if quoted title)
(*) Quote collection and proceedings titles too
(x) Collection and proceedings titles not in quotes
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\ans=x
You have selected: Collection and proceedings titles not in quotes
CAPITALIZATION OF ARTICLE TITLE:
(*) Sentence style (capitalize first word and those in braces)
(t) Title style (just as in bib entry)
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\ans=
You have selected: Sentence style
ARTICLE TITLE PRESENT:
(*) Article title present in journals and proceedings
(x) No article title
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\ans=
You have selected: Article title present
JOURNAL NAMES:
(*) Periods in journal names are retained, as Phys. Rev.' (x) Dotless journal names asPhys Rev’
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\ans=
You have selected: Periods in journal names
JOURNAL NAME FONT:
(*) Journal name italics
® Journal name normal font
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\ans=
You have selected: Journal name italics
THESIS TITLE:
(*) Thesis titles like books
(a) Thesis title like article
(x) No thesis title
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Thesis titles like books
TECHNICAL REPORT TITLE:
(*) Tech. report title like articles
(b) Tech. report title like books
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\ans=
You have selected: Tech. report title like articles
TECHNICAL REPORT NUMBER:
(*) Tech. report and number plain as Tech. Rep. 123' (i) Tech. report and number italic as{\it Tech. Rep. 123’}
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Tech. report and number plain
JOURNAL VOLUME:
(*) Volume plain as vol(num)
(i) Volume italic as {\em vol}(num)
(b) Volume bold as {\bf vol}(num)
(d) Volume and number bold as {\bf vol(num)}
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Volume plain
JOURNAL VOL AND NUMBER:
(*) Journal vol(num) as 34(2)
(s) Journal vol (num) as 34 (2)
© Journal vol, num as 34, 2
(n) Journal vol, no. num as 34, no. 2
(h) Journal vol, # number as 34, #2
(b) Journal vol number as 34 2
(x) Journal vol, without number as 34
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\ans=
You have selected: Journal vol(num)
VOLUME PUNCTUATION:
(*) Volume with colon as vol(num):ppp
(s) Volume with colon and space as vol(num): ppp
(h) Volume with semi-colon as vol(num); ppp
© Volume with comma as vol(num), ppp
(b) Volume with blank as vol(num) ppp
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\ans=
You have selected: Volume with colon
YEAR IN JOURNAL SPECIFICATION:
(*) Journal year like others as given by date position
(v) Journal vol(year) as 34(1995)
(s) Journal vol (year) as 34 (1995)
§ Year with pages as 34(2), (1995) 1345–1387
© Year, comma, pages as 34(2), (1995), 1345–1387
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\ans=
You have selected: Journal year like others
PAGE NUMBERS:
(*) Start and stop page numbers given
(f) Only start page number
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\ans=
You have selected: Start and stop page numbers
LARGE PAGE NUMBERS:
(*) No separators for large page numbers
© Comma inserted over 9999 as 11,234
(s) Thin space inserted over 9999 as 11 234
§ Period inserted over 9999 as 11.234
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\ans=
You have selected: No separators for large page numbers
WORD PAGE' IN ARTICLES: (*) Article pages numbers only as 234-256 (p) Includepage’ in articles as pp. 234–256
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Article pages numbers only
POSITION OF PAGES:
(*) Pages given mid text as is normal
(e) Pages at end but before any notes
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\ans=
You have selected: Pages given mid text
WORD VOLUME' IN ARTICLES: (*) Article volume as number only as 21 (p) Includevolume’ in articles as vol. 21
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\ans=
You have selected: Article volume as number only
NUMBER AND SERIES FOR COLLECTIONS:
(*) Allows number without series and suppresses word “number”
(s) Standard BibTeX as: “number 123 in Total Works”; error if number and
no ser
ies
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\ans=
You have selected: Allows number without series
POSITION OF NUMBER AND SERIES:
(*) After chapter and pages as in standard BibTeX
(t) Just before publisher or organization
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\ans=
You have selected: After chapter and pages
VOLUME AND SERIES FOR BOOKS/COLLECTIONS:
(*) Vol. 23 of Series as in standard BibTeX
(s) Series, vol. 23
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\ans=
You have selected: Vol. 23 of Series
POSITION OF VOLUME AND SERIES FOR INCOLLECTIONS:
(*) Series and volume after the editors
(e) Series and volume after booktitle and before editors
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\ans=
You have selected: Series and volume after the editors
JOURNAL NAME PUNCTUATION:
(*) Comma after journal name
(x) Space after journal name
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\ans=
You have selected: Comma after journal
BOOK TITLE:
(*) Book title italic (\em)
§ Book title plain (no font command)
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Book title italic
PAGES IN BOOKS:
(*) Pages in book plain as pp. 50-55
§ Pages in book in parentheses as (pp. 50-55)
(x) Pages in book bare as 50-55
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Pages in book plain
TOTAL PAGES OF A BOOK:
(*) Total book pages not printed
§ For book: 345 pages or pp.
(a) Total book pages before publisher
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Total book pages not printed
PUBLISHER ADDRESS:
(*) Publisher, address as Harcourt, New York
(a) Address: Publisher as New York: Harcourt
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\ans=
You have selected: Publisher, address
PUBLISHER IN PARENTHESES:
(*) Publisher as normal block without parentheses
§ Publisher in parentheses
(d) Publisher and date in parentheses (Oxford, 1994)
© Publisher and date in parentheses, no comma (Oxford 1994)
(f) Publisher and date without parentheses Oxford, 1994
(k) Publisher and date, no parentheses, no comma Oxford 1994
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Publisher as normal block
PUBLISHER POSITION:
(*) Publisher after chapter, pages
§ Publisher before chapter, pages
(e) Publisher after edition
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\ans=
You have selected: Publisher after chapter, pages
ISBN NUMBER:
(*) Include ISBN for books, booklets, etc.
(x) No ISBN
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Include ISBN
ISSN NUMBER:
(*) Include ISSN for periodicals
(x) No ISSN
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Include ISSN
DOI NUMBER:
(*) Include DOI as “doi: number”
(a) Insert DOI AGU style as part of page number
(x) No DOI
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\ans=
You have selected: Include DOI
EDITOR' AFTER NAMES (EDITED BOOKS WITHOUT AUTHORS): (*) Wordeditor’ after name
(a) Name (editor),' in parentheses, after name, comma after (b)Name (Editor),’ as above, editor upper case
© Name, (editor)' in parentheses, after name, comma between (d)Name, (Editor)’ as above, editor upper case
(e) Name (editor)' in parentheses, after name, no commas (f)Name (Editor)’ as above, editor upper case
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\ans=
You have selected: Word `editor’ after name
EDITOR IN COLLECTIONS:
(*) Same as for edited book (names before booktitle)
(b) In booktitle, edited by … (where … is names)
§ In booktitle (edited by …)
© In booktitle, (edited by …)
(e) In booktitle, editor …
(f) In booktitle, (editor) …
(k) In booktitle (editor…)
(g) In booktitle, (editor…)
(j) In booktitle, …, editor
(m) In booktitle (…, editor)
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\ans=
You have selected: Same as for edited book
PUNCTUATION BETWEEN SECTIONS (BLOCKS):
(*) \newblock after blocks (periods or new lines with openbib option)
© Comma between blocks
(s) Semi-colon between blocks
(b) Blanks between blocks
(t) Period after titles of articles, books, etc else commas
(u) Colon after titles of articles, books, etc else commas
(a) Period after titles of articles else commas
(d) Colon after titles of articles else commas
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\ans=
You have selected: \newblock after blocks
PUNCTUATION AFTER AUTHORS:
(*) Author block normal with regular block punctuation
© Author block with colon
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\ans=
You have selected: Author block normal
PUNCTUATION AFTER IN': (*) Space afterin’ for incollection or inproceedings
© Colon after in' (asIn: …’)
(i) Italic in' and space (d) Italicin’ and colon
(x) No word `in’ for edited works
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\ans=
You have selected: Space after `in’
IN' WITH JOURNAL NAMES (if using 'in' with collections) (*) Noin’ before journal name
(i) Add `in’ before journal name in style for incollection
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\ans=
You have selected: No `in’ before journal name
FINAL PUNCTUATION:
(*) Period at very end of the listed reference
(x) No period at end
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\ans=
You have selected: Period at very end
ABBREVIATE WORD PAGES' (if not using external language file) (*)Page(s)’ (no abbreviation)
(a) Page' abbreviated as p. or pp. (x)Page’ omitted
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\ans=
You have selected: `Page(s)’
ABBREVIATE WORD EDITORS': (*)Editor(s)’ (no abbreviation)
(a) `Editor’ abbreviated as ed. or eds.
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\ans=
You have selected: `Editor(s)’
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:
(*) No abbreviations of volume, edition, chapter, etc
(a) Abbreviations of such words
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\ans=
You have selected: No abbreviations
EDITION NUMBERS:
(*) Editions as in database saving much processing memory
(w) Write out editions as first, second, third, etc
(n) Numerical editions as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc
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\ans=
You have selected: Editions as in database
Reading external language file \cfile=
STORED JOURNAL NAMES:
(*) Full journal names for prestored journals
(a) Abbreviated journal names
(s) Abbreviated with astronomy shorthands like ApJ and AJ
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: Full journal names
AMPERSAND:
(*) Use word and' in author lists (a) Use ampersand in place ofand’
(v) Use \BIBand in place of `and’
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\ans=
You have selected: Use word `and’
COMMA BEFORE AND': (*) Comma beforeand’ as Tom, Dick, and Harry' (n) No comma beforeand’ as Tom, Dick and Harry' (c) Comma even with 2 authors asTom, and Harry’
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\ans=
You have selected: Comma before `and’
NO AND' IN REFERENCE LIST: (*) Withand’ before last author in reference list
(x) No and' asTom, Dick, Harry’
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\ans=
You have selected: With `and’
COMMA BEFORE ET AL': (*) Comma beforeet al’ in reference list
(x) No comma before `et al’
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\ans=
You have selected: Comma before `et al’
FONT OF `ET AL’:
(*) Plain et al
(i) Italic et al
® Roman et al even when authors something else
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\ans=
You have selected: Plain et al
ADDITIONAL REVTeX DATA FIELDS:
(*) No additional fields for REVTeX
® Include REVTeX data fields collaboration, eid, eprint, archive,
numpages, u
rl
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\ans=
You have selected: No additional fields
E-PRINT DATA FIELD: (without REVTeX fields)
(*) Do not include eprint field
(e) Include eprint and archive fields for electronic publications
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\ans=
You have selected: Do not include eprint field
URL ADDRESS: (without REVTeX fields)
(*) No URL for electronic (Internet) documents
(u) Include URL as regular item block
(n) URL as note
(l) URL on new line after rest of reference
Select:
\ans=
You have selected: No URL
REFERENCE COMPONENT TAGS:
(*) No reference component tags in the \bibitem entries
(b) Reference component tags like \bibinfo in the content of \bibitem
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\ans=
You have selected: No reference component tags
EMPHASIS: (affects all so-called italics)
(*) Use emphasis ie, \em, allows font switching
(i) Use true italics ie, \it, absolute italics
(x) No italics at all
(u) Underlining in place of italics, best with ulem package
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\ans=
You have selected: Use emphasis
COMPATIBILITY WITH PLAIN TEX:
(*) Use LaTeX commands which may not work with Plain TeX
(t) Use only Plain TeX commands for fonts and testing
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\ans=
You have selected: Use LaTeX commands
)
Finished!!
Batch job written to file `test.dbj’
Shall I now run this batch job? (NO)
\yn=