biblatex-trad.tex

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\titlepage{%
  title={The \sty{biblatex-trad} Package},
  subtitle={Traditional bibliography styles for \sty{biblatex}},
  url={},
  author={Marco Daniel},
  email={marco.daniel@mada-nada.de},
  revision={0.2},
  date={29. Sep 2012}}

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  pdftitle={The biblatex-trad Package},
  pdfsubject={Traditional bibliography styles for biblatex},
  pdfauthor={Marco Daniel},
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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:int}

The package \sty{biblatex-trad} is a contribution to the great package \sty{biblatex}. 

It provides the implementation of the traditional bibliography styles (\sty{plain},
\sty{unsrt}, \sty{alpha} and \sty{abbrv}) as a style for \sty{biblatex}.

\subsection{Motivation}\label{subsec:int:mot}

The package is motivated by a question at \tex-\latex Stack Exchange \glqq \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}{How to emulate the traditional BibTeX styles (plain, abbrv, unsrt, alpha) as closely as possible with biblatex?}

\subsection{Requirements}

The usage of the styles requires \sty{biblatex} 2.0 or newer.

\subsection{License}

Copyright \textcopyright\ 2006--2012 Marco Daniel. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and\slash or modify this software under the terms of the \lppl, version 1.3.\fnurl{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base/lppl.txt}.


\subsection{Feedback}\label{subsec:int:feb}

Please use the \sty{biblatex-trad} project page on GitHub to report bugs and submit feature requests.\fnurl{https://github.com/marcodaniel/trad-biblatex}

If you do not want to report a bug or request a feature but are simply in need of assistance, you might want to consider posting your question on the \texttt{comp.text.tex} newsgroup or \tex-\latex Stack Exchange.\fnurl{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex}

\section{Usage}

\sty{biblatex-trad} isn't a standalone package. As described in \secref{sec:int} it's
a small collection of styles. So you can load the styles as follows:

\begin{lstlisting}[style=latex]{}
\usepackage[style=XXX]{biblatex}
\end{lstlisting}
The available styles are listet below.
\begin{marglist}

\item[trad-plain] Implementation of the standard style \sty{plain}
\item[trad-unsrt] Implementation of the standard style \sty{unsrt}
\item[trad-alpha] \BiberOnlyMark  Implementation of the standard style \sty{alpha}
\item[trad-abbrv]  Implementation of the standard style \sty{abbrv}

\end{marglist}

After loading the style you can use all options provided by the package \sty{biblatex}. That means also that all keys of the bibliography drivers are availble. Related to the orginal bibliography styles you have a lot more powerful keys which won't cleared by this package.

\section{Limitation}

Up to know the entry types \bibtype{BOOK}, \bibtype{ARTICLE} and \bibtype{INCOLLECTION} are
setup.

\section{Revision History}
\label{apx:log}


\begin{changelog}

\begin{release}{0.2}{2012-09-29}
\item fixed missing comma after journal name if journal name has a period
\item make titles sentence case
\item removed extra \emph{in}
\item removed extra \cmd{printfield}
\item fixed extra comma if \bibtype{article} doesn't have a year
\item use package \sty{libertine-type1} for documentation
\end{release}

\begin{release}{0.1}{2012-09-09}
\item First upload
\end{release}

\end{changelog}
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