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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society bibtex style file
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society bibtex style file

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• URL: https://github.com/timj/mn2e-bst
• Owner: timj
• Created: 2012-08-07T21:51:40.000Z (over 12 years ago)
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mnras.bst

========

`mnras.bst` is the bibliography style file used for the `latex2e` Monthly

Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society style file.  See the

journal's instructions for authors at [OUP][] (Sect. 6.3), and the downloadable

files at [CTAN][].

[OUP]: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/mnras/for_authors/

[CTAN]: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/mnras/

Previously this file was distributed by Blackwell Scientific.

Style-file support

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

Recent changes to the .bst file potentially require support from the

mnras.cls class file.

  * The `.bst` file generates references to DOIs, and to URIs mentioned

    in the `.bib` file, but using macros `\doi` and `\url`.  The

    `hyperref` package defines the `\url` macro, but one can define

    suitable alternatives which typeset the URIs appropriately, even

    if they don't actually make the hyperlink.  These macros are used

    only within the generated `.bbl` file.  See below.

  * The style file also generates references which implement MN's

    'three authors' rule using a macro `\mniiiauthor`.  These macros

    are used in citations (that is, via the `\cite` macro) and so

    outside the generated bibliography (in `.bbl`).

The file `mnras-bst.sty` contains the definitions required to support

the newly-generated `.bst` output.

Currently, `mnras.bst` is configured so that (i) it incorporates the

content of the `mnras-bst.sty` file into the generated `.bbl` file (see

the function `begin.bib`, at the bottom), and (ii) the `\mniiiauthor`

functionality is disabled, using the setting `#0 threeauthorvar :=` in

`initialise.mnras`.  This means that the generated `.bbl` file is

standalone, but doesn't support the MN 'three-authors' prescription.

Ideally, this file will be incorporated directly into the `mnras.cls`

file, or at a pinch loaded as usual using the usual

`\usepackage{mnras-bst}`.  In this case, (i) the function `begin.bib`

should be edited to remove the now-superfluous definitions; and (ii)

the line `#0 'threeauthorvar :=` in `mnras.bst` can be changed to `#1

'threeauthorvar :=`.

If hyperref is _not_ used, then it is necessary to define the `\href`

and `\url` macros as follows:

    \def\href#1#2{#2}

    \def\urlinner#1{#1\endgroup}

    \def\url{\begingroup\def\do##1{\catcode`##1 12 }%

      \do\\\do\$\do\&\do\#\do\^\do\_\do\%\do\~ \ttfamily \urlinner}

(there is a more compact alternative at the top of `mnras-bst.sty`,

which can be used within a class file).

Authors

-------

This style file was originally written by John Sleath and Tim Jenness

at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in the summer of 1995. It

was derived from the `astron.bst` style file which itself was derived

from the `apalike.bst` style file.

Norman Gray ( and )

provided the multi-author style fixes, and the additions to the

style-file to support DOIs and the MN three-author requirement.

This style was originally known as `mn2e.bst` but has been renamed

to `mnras.bst` to match the new naming convention for the recently

upgraded `mnras.cls`.