bibtex issues

[Zdenek Wagner]

I have looked into the files and changing {\sc something} to
\textsc{something} is a trivial task. Do you have a contact to the
author? I do not want to become a new maintainer but such update will
be a matter of a few minutes' work, so I can do it.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

st 13. 11. 2019 v 3:06 odesílatel Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> napsal:
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> > is authordate4.bst.
>
> Well, this comes from the authordate package by David Rhead which is
> from 1992 ... not sure we will see updates here ;-)
>
> > First, these styles define bold face, emphasize, and small caps using the
> > deprecated codes \bf, \em, and \sc respectively. When pdflatex tries to
>
> Hmm, I don't see any errors *what*so*ever* in my test file:
>
> $ cat authordatetest.tex
> \documentclass{report}
> \usepackage{authordate1-4}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Hello World \cite{Brinson1993}
>
> \bibliographystyle{authordate4}
>
> \bibliography{authordatetest}
>
> \end{document}
> $
>
> Runing this through latex/bibtex/latex/latex gives no errors.
>
> Do you use \documentclass ?
>
>
>
> > Second, documents stored by kbibtex as type technical report include the
> > string, 'Tech. rept.' in the document's bibliography even though that string
>
> That comes from the function
>         FUNCTION {format.tr.number}
>         { type empty$
>             { "Tech. rept."  }                                      %  ODWE abbrevs.
>             'type
>           if$
>           number empty$
>             { "t" change.case$ }
>             { number tie.or.space.connect }
>           if$
>         }
> so it indicates that a field "type" needs to be present and have some
> value to not show the "Tech. rept." string.
>
> That means, you should use the following bib item:
>
> @techreport{Brinson1993,
>         abstract = {...},
>         author = {Brinson, M.M.},
>         institution = {US Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station},
>         keywords = {wetlands, geomorphology, hydrology, ecology},
>         number = {WRP-DE-4},
>         type = {Technical Report}
>         pagetotal = {103},
>         subtitle = {Wetlands Research Program},
>         title = {{A Hydrogeomorphic Classification for Wetlands}},
>         year = {1993}
> }
>
> Mind the changes in "number" and added "type". With that I get the
> expected output
>
>         Brinson, M.M. 1993. A Hydrogeomorphic Classification for Wetlands. Tech-
>         nical Report WRP-DE-4. US Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Exper-
>         iment Station.
>
>
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Norbert
>
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