[OS X TeX] style for bibliographic references: newapa

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Manuel Souto Pico wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use the package newapa (or the file newapa.bst) to
> format the style of my bibliographic references, but I'm having some
> problems. This is the output of the console when I compile my .tex
> document with bibtex after having compiled it twice with xelatex.
>
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5)
> The top-level auxiliary file: hegixetex.aux
> I couldn't open style file newapa.bst
> ---line 161 of file hegixetex.aux
> : \bibstyle{newapa
> :                 }
> I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
> I found no style file---while reading file hegixetex.aux
> (There were 2 error messages)
>
> My newapa directory, which contains the newapa.bst and the newapa.sty
> files, was in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/. I also tried putting it in a
> new directory ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/contrib/bibtex/ but the result
> is the same.
>
> Surprisingly, I have no problems applying the apalike or the  
> plainnat styles.
>
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5)
> The top-level auxiliary file: hegixetex.aux
> The style file: apalike.bst
> Database file #1: linguistics.bibWarning--empty journal in Frank2004
> (There was 1 warning)
>
> Could somebody help me out or give me a hint?
>
> Thanks a lot, Manuel
>

Howdy,

Try putting your .bst file in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/ (or a  
subdirectory of that directory. Similarly, put your .bib files in ~/ 
Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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