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Thursday, December 25, 2008

BibTeX Bibliography Style File (BST) for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)

The Elsevier journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence suggests that authors use the elsart-harv.bst BibTeX bibliography style (BST) file to match its Harvard-style author-year reference format. However, elsart-harv.bst does not match the conventions used in EAAI proofs. In particular,
  • EAAI proofs use "Thesis" (instead of "thesis")
  • EAAI proofs surround the volume of an "in proceedings" entry with commas (instead of periods)
  • EAAI proofs use "vol." (instead of "Vol.")
  • EAAI proofs don't put any space between abbreviated parts of author names (but they do keep the hyphens in hyphenated abbreviations)
So I modified elsart-harv.bst to match EAAI conventions. My modified form is: To use it, just download it, place it in the same directory as your compuscript, and change your
\bibliographystyle{elsart-harv}
line to
\bibliographystyle{elsart-harv-EAAI}
Of course, elsart-harv-EAAI.bst is still natbib compatible.

[ NOTE: More-advanced users may prefer my elsart-harv-EAAI.patch. ]

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