jcburt@ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) (12/10/90)
Hopefully someone out there in netland can help me with this problem... In a paper to be published, I need a particular form for my references as specified by the American Institute of Physics Journals (AIP). In the bibtex-style subdirectory on sun-soe.clarkson.edu I found a file physics.btx which apparently contains the AIP style. To extract it requires a C preprocessor (which they supplied for GNU-emacs as cpp.el). Using this macro (or whatever you want to call it) basically creates the bibtex style file you need in a buffer (then you save the buffer). This file (physics.btx) can also be used to create the plain.bst, abbrv.bst, unsrt.bst, etc. standard bibtex style files. Only one little problem... when trying to create one of the physics style files, it apparently tries to include the file "journal-abbrevs.bst" which i haven't been able to find anywhere! apparently journal-abbrevs.bst contains citation abbreviations commonly used in physics journal. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this file, or any suggestions on how to get around this problem? (I know the easiest way would be to comment out the line that tries to include the file...but I would like to use the abbreviations if possible) Thanks in advance... John Burton (jcburt@cs.wm.edu)
sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) (12/18/90)
You can create journal-abbrev.bst using cpp and physics.btx! Follow the instructions included in physics.btx but replace 'aip' with 'journal-abbrev'. I guess the author just assumed that you would already have journal-abbrev.bst. -- - - - - Robert Sullivan JANET : sullivan@uk.ac.exeter.msor Theoretical Physics Dept. UUCP : sullivan%msor.exeter.ac.uk@ukc.uucp University of Exeter BITNET : sullivan%msor.exeter.ac.uk@UKACRL England. Internet : sullivan%msor.exeter.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu EX4 4QL Tel : +44 392 264198 "One must be open-minded -- --but not so open-minded that one's brains fall out."