Is it possible to use the amsplain
bibliographic style with the biblatex
package?
After processing the source file below, I get error: "Package biblatex Error: Style 'amsplain' not found."
%% source.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=amsplain]{biblatex}
\bibliography{referencesdb}
\begin{document}
Refer to \cite{thebook} for more information.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Here's the .bib
file used:
@book{
thebook,
author = {John Doe},
title = {The book without a Name},
publisher = {Mystery Books},
year = {2016},
}
The amsplain.bst
file really is available in my TeXLive 2016 installation, because if I change the source to the following, then processing completes as expected.
%% source-no-biblatex.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Refer to \cite{thebook} for more information.
\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
\bibliography{referencesdb}
\end{document}
amsplain
withbiblatex
.amsplain
is a.bst
style and is thus used as you show in your second bit of code.biblatex
needs.bbx
and.cbx
styles. Since there is noamsplain.bbx
and noamsplain.cbx
you can't use that style withbiblatex
. – moewe Sep 13 '16 at 20:27biblatex
in order to recreate essentially the sameamsplain
style? – murray Sep 13 '16 at 20:29biblatex
if you have a style you can work with right now? AFAIK there is nobiblatex
implementation ofamsplain
so you would have to make do withnumeric
its derivatives ortrad-plain
of thebiblatex-trad
package. Whilebiblatex
has many superior features, you don't have to switch especially if you have a.bst
style that works for you (it's unlikely you need the advanced features then). – moewe Sep 13 '16 at 20:31biblatex
is often (for me at least) easier to modify than.bst
styles. The question is: How much do you need that? And how far is the output you get fromstyle=numeric
inbiblatex
away from what you want to see? You can easily get rid of quotation marks around the titles, if that is all you need. But if you need much more, things might become a bit more involved. – moewe Sep 13 '16 at 20:54numeric
? That will tell you how much work you'd need to do (roughly) to customise the style according to your desiderata. If you want to include additional fields, you are already moving away from that style, of course. Part of what a style defines is what information, exactly, gets shown and what not. – cfr Sep 14 '16 at 2:23