Where can I find collections of bibliography styles?

Question

Is there a central 'warehouse' or, perhaps, a 'list of collections', of bibliography styles?

My preference is for BibLaTeX, but I'm sure answers for BibTeX would also be helpful.

I don't have any specific requirements, but I would be interested in (a) trying things out to see examples of bibliography formatting and (b) learning how to build such things myself.

Answer 1

Bibstyles.pdf http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibstyles.pdf

"BibTeX Style Examples" http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html

"BibTeX and bibliography styles" http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibstyles.html

Answer 2

Very short answer: Have a look at CTAN, especially the category Document parts > Bibliography > Bibliographic styles

Answer 3

As a starting point, I look on my own computer in the files that came with e.g. TexLive: .../tex/latex/biblatex and other stuff in .../tex/latex that starts with biblatex. I take the style that is closed to what I want and copy the file in the local directory and rename the .cbx file. In this case, I renamed it to brent.cbx. I further make an almost empty .bbx file like this one

%$Id: brent.bbx,v 0.1 2011/11/16 12:44:46 thomas stable $

\ProvidesFile{brent.bbx}
[\abx@bbxid $Id: brent.bbx,v 0.1 2011/11/16 12:44:46 thomas stable $]

\RequireBibliographyStyle{numeric-comp}

\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\mkbibbold{#1\isdot}}

\endinput

and name it brent.bbx. First, numeric-comp is taken and then I change something. In this case, I wanted the journal volume to be bold. So I changed

to

This way, I try to slowly come to the style I like.

My tex file:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=brent]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{cvpubs.bib}

\begin{document}
%
\fullcite{landau1937}
\end{document}

My bib file:

@article{landau1937,
author = {L. D. Landau}, 
title={On the Theory of Phase Transitions I},
journal = {Phys. Z. Sowjet.},
volume = {11},
pages = {545},
year = {1937}
}

I keep looking in the other files in the mentioned directory, if I am still missing something I want to change. The files that came with biblatex or rather TexLive were always good enough for me to find what I was looking for.