Where can I find collections of bibliography styles?

  • bibstyles.pdf contains previews of reference lists and in-text citations for 44 styles.

  • "BibTeX Style Examples" contains previews of reference lists and in-text citations for 52 styles.

  • "BibTeX Bibliography Styles" contains previews of reference lists and in-text citations for 119 styles, displayed in separate files.

  • "Choosing a BibTeX style" contains previews of 9 BibTeX styles, along with advice on how to choose a style according to the subject of the paper.


Sorry for my very (very) late answer, but I hope it would help anyway. I've made a collection, named Debibify, of some bibTeX bibliography styles.


As a starting point, I look on my own computer in the files that came with e.g. TexLive: .../tex/latex/biblatex and other stuff in .../tex/latex that starts with biblatex. I take the style that is closed to what I want and copy the file in the local directory and rename the .cbx file. In this case, I renamed it to brent.cbx. I further make an almost empty .bbx file like this one 

%$Id: brent.bbx,v 0.1 2011/11/16 12:44:46 thomas stable $

\ProvidesFile{brent.bbx}
[\abx@bbxid $Id: brent.bbx,v 0.1 2011/11/16 12:44:46 thomas stable $]

\RequireBibliographyStyle{numeric-comp}

\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\mkbibbold{#1\isdot}}

\endinput

and name it brent.bbx. First, numeric-comp is taken and then I change something. In this case, I wanted the journal volume to be bold. So I changed

normalcite

to

boldcite

This way, I try to slowly come to the style I like.

My tex file:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=brent]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{cvpubs.bib}

\begin{document}
%
\fullcite{landau1937}
\end{document}

My bib file:

@article{landau1937,
author = {L. D. Landau}, 
title={On the Theory of Phase Transitions I},
journal = {Phys. Z. Sowjet.},
volume = {11},
pages = {545},
year = {1937}
}

I keep looking in the other files in the mentioned directory, if I am still missing something I want to change. The files that came with biblatex or rather TexLive were always good enough for me to find what I was looking for.

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