[texhax] Slight problems with pnas.bst

dalonso at umich.edu dalonso at umich.edu
Tue Feb 17 18:23:16 CET 2004


Hello Everbody,

Those interested in publishing in PNAS by using latex (obviously) will 
find this interesting... Here I have copied a useful contribution from 
Ricardo Azevedo about the use of pnas.bst with natbib.sty.

Quoting Ricardo Azevedo <rbazev at sbcglobal.net>:

> Hello again,
> 
> One more thing.  I have found a small bug in the pnas.bst distributed 
> by Tom Schneider.  It causes minor mistakes in the punctuation of an 
> author's last initial.  For example:
> 
> 1. Dancoff, S. M & Quastler, H. (1953) in Essays on the Use of 
> Information Theory in
> Biology, ed. Quastler, H. (Univ. Illinois Press, Urbana), pp. 263-273.
> 2. Apter, M. J & Wolpert, L. (1965) J. Theor. Biol. 8, 244-257.
> 3. Goodwin, B. C, Kauffman, S, & Murray, J. D. (1993) J. Theor. Biol. 
> 163, 135-244.
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> 1. Dancoff, S. M. & Quastler, H. (1953) in Essays on the Use of 
> Information Theory in
> Biology, ed. Quastler, H. (Univ. Illinois Press, Urbana), pp. 263-273.
> 2. Apter, M. J. & Wolpert, L. (1965) J. Theor. Biol. 8, 244-257.
> 3. Goodwin, B. C., Kauffman, S., & Murray, J. D. (1993) J. Theor. Biol. 
> 163, 135-244.
> 
> Could you tell me if you get the same problem in your set up?  If so, 
> try this "pnas.bst" with a modified FUNCTION {format.names}.
> 
> Best, Ricardo.


Furthermore I have still some problems when I try to use the command \citet, 
which, in numerical citation mode, should produce the authors name's followed 
by the reference's number.

 
My document reads like this (PNAS file)
-----------------------------------------
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}

\begin{document}
...
Although previous work \citep{Smith01,Wilson02,Sole03} strongly critized these 
methods, \citet{Alonso04} discovered a new dance in Paco Pigali boite 
(BH, MG, Brazil) that produce an instataneous sense of happiness to those 
who dance.
...

\bibliographystyle{pnas}
\bibliography{file.bib}
\end{document}
-----------------------------------------
Where [numbers] is the option for numerical citation mode (otherwise authors 
year is by default in natbib.sty) and sort&compress produces (1-5) rather than
(1;2;3;4;5) as required. 

When I use the plainnat.bst instaed, my document reads (PLAINNAT file)
-----------------------------------------
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}

\begin{document}
...
Although previous work \citep{Smith01,Wilson02,Sole02} strongly critized these 
methods, \citet{Alonso03} discovered a new dance in Paco Pigalli boite (BH,MG,
Brazil) that produce an instataneous sense of happiness to those who dance.
...

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{file.bib}
\end{document}
-----------------------------------------

When I am using plainnat, I don't have any problem in obtaining right textual
refereces. I mean that when I compile PLAINAT file, I obtain:

-----------------------------------------

...
Although previous work (2-4) strongly critized these methods, Alonso et al.
(1) discovered a new dance in Paco Pigalli boite (BH,MG,Brazi) 
...

References

1. Alonso, D., Maciel F., and Guimeraes, M. 2003. Paco Pigalli super-nova
like explosion in Septemver 2002. Psycological benefits of super-nova like
dancing explosions. Science. 367, 342-345.
2. Smith, R.S. 2001. ...
3. Sole, R.V. 2002. Some advances in Italian dancing as a therapy. Journal
of Dancing Research. 345, 234-267. 
4. Wilson, G.T. 2002. ...
-----------------------------------------

By contrast by using document PNAS file, I obtain first a latex warning:

Package natbib Warning:  Author undefined for citation `Alonso03'
(natbib)                 on page 1 on input line 23.

and then the final document produces a citation as follows:

-----------------------------------------

...
Although previous work (1-3) strongly critized these methods, (author?)
(4) discovered a new dance in Paco Pigalli boite (BH,MG,Brazi) 
...

References

1. Smith, R.S. 2001. ...
2. Sole, R.V. 2002. Some advances in Italian dancing as a therapy. Journal
of Dancing Research. 345, 234-267. 
3. Wilson, G.T. 2002. ...
4. Alonso, D., Maciel F., and Guimeraes, M. 2003. Paco Pigalli super-nova
like explosion in Septemver 2002. Psycological benefits of super-nova like
dancing explosions. Science. 367, 342-345.
...
--------------------------------------

Do you have any idea related to the origins to this problem that can help 
to solve it? Do you think there is a bug in pnas.bst.?

Thank you for you attention!

David.


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