McBride

The McBride bibliography style

(Chicago Manual of Style, Documentation Two)

McBride is a BibTeX bibliography style that follows the Chicago Manual of Style's "Documentation Two" specifications. McBride is named after [Thomas McBride, a Chicago bicycle messenger murdered by Carnell Fitzpatrick]. The latest version is dated 2007-10-18; this version makes years lowercase, so that you can set year = "In press" in your BibTeX database.

I made McBride because I was unsatisfied with [chicago.bst]. See below for a comparison.

What you need to use McBride:

• [mcbride.bst], the style file itself
• Patrick W. Daly's [natbib] package (download natbib.dtx and natbib.ins, then run LaTeX on the latter to install)

(Note that natbib may already be installed on your system. If so, there should be a file called natbib.sty.)

• [natbib.cfg], to configure natbib punctuation and indentation when used with mcbride.bst (if you have an existing natbib.cfg, then append this one to it)

How you can use McBride:

• Say \usepackage[longnamesfirst]{natbib} at the beginning of your LaTeX document.
• Say \bibliographystyle{mcbride} at the end of your LaTeX document.
• Cite works as noun phrases by saying \citet{...}.
• Cite works parenthetically by saying \citep{...}.
• For more information, read the natbib documentation, which you can produce by running LaTeX on the natbib.dtx file you downloaded above.

How I produced McBride:

• I ran Patrick W. Daly's [custom-bib] package, which produced [my starting point for mcbride.bst], along with [mcbride.dbj] and [makebst.log].
• I then tweaked mcbride.bst and wrote natbib.cfg.

Why McBride is better than chicago.bst:

• The McBride bibliography style is based on Patrick W. Daly's excellent natbib package, not just compatible with some of its features.
• Author names are not shortened to initials. (CMS 16.22)
• All titles are uncapitalized, except periodical titles. (CMS 16.23, 16.60)
• Thesis and dissertation titles are neither capitalized nor italicized. (CMS 16.131)
• Names with von-parts are sorted without. The von-part that needs to be sorted with is not the true von-part. (CMS 16.26, CMS 17.106)
• Three-em dashes are used in place of repeated author names. (CMS 16.28-30)
• The conjunction "and" in a reference list entry is always preceded by a comma, even when there are only two authors. (CMS 16.36)
• Papers in proceedings and chapters in collections are cited as "In Proceedings of the Big Important Conference, ed. Alice B. Copy and David Editor, 12-34" rather than "In A. B. Copy and D. Editor (Eds.), Proceedings of the Big Important Conference, pp. 12-34". (CMS 16.22, 16.47, 16.75-76)
• There is no superfluous stretching of the space that follows the colon in "Address: Publisher".
• Line breaks are allowed (but not encouraged) after the colon in "1(2):34-56". (This would appear to contradict the answer to exercise 12.4 in the TeXbook?, but a line break after the en-dash would be truly undesirable there as well as here.)

A BibTeX tip, not really specific to McBride: To specify an edited collection (that is not a proceedings volume), say

@Book{thomason-formal,
  author    = "Richard Montague",
  editor    = "Richmond Thomason",
  title     = "Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of {R}ichard {M}ontague\textup{, ed.\ {R}ichmond {T}homason}",
  booktitle = "Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of {R}ichard {M}ontague",
  address   = "New Haven",
  publisher = "Yale University Press",
  year      = 1974
}

@InCollection{montague-proper,
  author    = "Richard Montague",
  title     = "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary {E}nglish",
  pages     = "247--270",
  crossref  = "thomason-formal"
}

--KenShan

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