bibtex issues

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Nov 13 00:57:20 CET 2019


If this is not the appropriate mail list for bibtex issues please point me
to the appropriate one.

I'm running TeXLive2019 behind LyX-2.3.3 on Slackware-14.2/x86_64 and using
kbibtex as my bibliographic database. The bibtex style I've used for years
is authordate4.bst.

There are two problems I've encountered with that style; many others have
the same issues.

First, these styles define bold face, emphasize, and small caps using the
deprecated codes \bf, \em, and \sc respectively. When pdflatex tries to
compile the lyx document it fails, warning that these font encodings have
been deprecated.

Second, documents stored by kbibtex as type technical report include the
string, 'Tech. rept.' in the document's bibliography even though that string
is not in the bibtex description. Two examples follow.

In the document's bibliography:

Brinson, M.M. 1993. A hydrogeomorphic classification for wetlands. Tech.
rept. Technical Report WRP-DE-4. US Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways
Experiment Station.

Cowardin, L.M., Carter, V., Golet, F.C., & LaRoe, E.T. 1979. Classification
of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the united states. Tech. rept.
FWS/OBS-79/31. Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service.

The bibtex source in kbibtex:

@techreport{Brinson1993,
  	abstract = {...},
  	author = {Brinson, M.M.},
  	institution = {US Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station},
  	keywords = {wetlands, geomorphology, hydrology, ecology},
  	number = {Technical Report WRP-DE-4},
  	pagetotal = {103},
  	subtitle = {Wetlands Research Program},
  	title = {{A Hydrogeomorphic Classification for Wetlands}},
  	year = {1993}
}

@techreport{Cowardin1979,
  	abstract = {...},
  	author = {Cowardin, L.M. and Carter, V. and Golet, F.C. and LaRoe, E.T.},
  	institution = {Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service},
  	keywords = {wetlands, classification, habitats},
  	number = {FWS/OBS-79/31},
  	pagetotal = {103},
  	title = {{Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States}},
  	year = {1979}
}

Journal articles and books do not have their document type included in the
bibliography listing.

Regards,

Rich


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