Re: [Bibdesk-users] bib software on Macintouch

[jiho <jo....@gm...>]

>>> 33 styles!!! how are people doing to format
>>> their bibliography for journals? they all have very
>>> specific requirements and 33 is so little compared to the
>>> number of journals!
>
>> Are you actually submitting to journals that absolutely
>> require you to have the exact reference format correct or
>> they send your paper back unreviewed? If a journal can't be
>> bothered to provide a bst, then I can't be bothered to make
>> sure what I give them is EXACTLY their format. It's not hard
>> to have something that's pretty close and let them make the
>> necessary changes.
>>
>
> Yup. I think there are two widespread cases:
>
> 1. One of the standard bst's will work for the vast majority of  
> journals, since the vast majority of journals in all fields require  
> one of a relatively small number of standard styles.
>
> 2. Those journals which describe something in their IFAs that is  
> not covered by one of the standard styles are rarely journals for  
> which LaTeX input files are the expected format for submissions.  
> However, in the majority of *these* cases, the publusher, if  
> contacted directly (the publisher mark you, not the editor) will  
> agree to accept a LaTeX input file, since they will likely be  
> publishing other journals for which LaTeX is a standard submission  
> format and are therefore equipped to deal with the issues.
>
> There may be a third case involving publishers who flatly refuse to  
> accept TeX-based input files.
>
> However, I'm doubtful that there is a fourth case: Journals that  
> accept LaTeX files, but for which the publishers require a non- 
> standard bibliography format and don't have an in-house style for  
> that format.

Hello thank you all for these insights. Actually I am a theoretical  
biologist and many biology journals don't accept latex (but they  
accept rtf and latex to rtf works well) though I often need the good  
maths in latex. They also have specific bibliography formatting  
needs. Or at least they say they do but I never tried submitting  
something that was only close to the requirements. I might try this  
and wait. I don't think they will just throw away my paper because of  
this. I was just willing to make the maximum on my side.
So it appears that I am an isolated case. For sure physics or math  
journals are accepting latex and even provide the bst. So I might  
just submit everything to Science: they provide a bst too ;-)

Thank you again. I might try to build a larger bst database  
sometimes, even if it is only to learn php/mysql, for my personal use  
and for few people in my field. I'll post something then (shorter, I  
promise).

JiHO
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