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- From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams )
- Subject: Update to harvard bibliographic style family
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.004832.15947@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Keywords: tex, bibtex
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- Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:48:32 GMT
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- New upgraded versions of the harvard family of bibliography styles are available
- in pub/harvard on archsci.arch.su.oz.au (129.78.66.1).
-
- The following enhancements have been made:
-
- - new macros \citeyear (thanks to Renate Schmidt (schmidt@mpi-sb.mpg.de) and
- \citename have been added
- - citation styles agsm, dcu and kluwer have been altered so that author lists
- greater than length 2 are only abbreviated to the et al form if no confusion
- or ambibuity will result, e.g.
- Smith, Jones and Bloggs (1980), and
- Smith, Jones and Abercrombe (1980)
- will not be abbreviated as they both abbreviate to Smith et al (1980). The
- previous versions of the styles would have abbreviated these to
- Smith et al (1980b) and Smith et al (1980a). These changes have been made in
- response to a number of postings lamenting this behaviour.
- - as a side affect of this change *.bbl files will be smaller as the optional
- abbreviated citation is now only used if the abbreviated citation differs from
- full citation.
- - the documentation has been changed as necessary
-
- The relevant files are:
- harvard.sty - new macro package
- harvard.tex - documentation
- harvard.bib - necessary bib file for harvard.tex
- agsm.bst, dcu.bst, kluwer.bst and nederlands.bst - bibtex style files
-
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-
- P.S. Thought is being given to the use of initials to disambiguate names.
-
- P.P.S. Other suggestions for enhancements to the harvard family are welcomed.
- Of particular relevance are *.bst files for styles that are similar to
- but not identical to those already provided.
-