Get the bibliography style of Kelley's book General topology using bibtex

Question

I would like to get the bibliography style of the Kelley's book General Topology:

I've been reading the options that LaTeX has here and there is no one like Kelley's book apparently.

Is it possible to get what I want?

Thanks

PD: I haven't said it but it is supposed to use the standard bibtex, i.e. data_base.bib + style_file.bst, but I don't mind if I would need extra packages. @AlanMunn says with that option is difficult. Please fell free to give another solution. I'm focus on only in the style, not in the way.

Addendum.

Following @moewe's advice I'm going to highlight what is the main part I want to recreate. It is obviously the format

Author (in sc) Cite (indented and restarted with each new atuthor).

The format of the proper cite doesn't mind. For example, I would like

Title (Edition), Editorial, Country (Year). Notes

for books and maybe

Title, Journal, Volume (in bf) Pages (year) for journals,

but it doesn't matter at all.

What I would like to have a field subtitle to be able to write subtitles right, because sometimes they are written in note fields.

And finally, if I use \cite{kuratowski:topologie2}, I want to obtain Kuratowski [2] automatically.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I focused on the 'interesting' bit of the style: The author+number citation and rough bibliography layout. The remaining tweaks should be doable with a bit of research on this site.

If we base our style on biblatex-philosophy's philosophy-modern we only need to make sure that citations are not 'author year', but 'author number' instead.

I can't think of a simple way to do that at the moment (feature request is out: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/718), so I came up with the following. We pretend that we use an alphabetic style that uses only the author names in its label. Normally style=alphabetic uses only bits of the author name and the year (e.g. SR98, Knu84). If a label is ambiguous, Biber calculates an extraalpha value (e.g. Knu86a, Knu86b). Since our labels are the names only, extraalpha would get us 'Nussbaum' (if there is no other work by 'Nussbaum') and 'Knutha', 'Knuthb'. That extraalpha is almost our number: If there is no extraalpha ('Nussbaum') we take 1, otherwise extraalpha is what we go with.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=philosophy-modern, backend=biber, labelalpha, giveninits, uniquename=init, mergedate=false, volnumformat=plain]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}


\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[final]{shorthand}
    \field{label}
    \field{labelname}
  }
}

\renewbibmacro*{relateddate}{%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \printtext[parens]{\printdate}}
\renewbibmacro*{commarelateddate}{\usebibmacro{relateddate}}

\DeclareFieldFormat{extraalpha}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}
\renewbibmacro{date+extradate}{%
  \postsepyear{%
    \usebibmacro{extralabel}}}

\newbibmacro{extralabel}{%
  \iffieldundef{extraalpha}
    {\printtext[extraalpha]{1}}
    {\printfield{extraalpha}}}

\newbibmacro{cite:extralabel}{%
  \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{extralabel}}}

\makeatletter
\renewbibmacro*{cite:AY:noshorthand}{%
  \ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:reinit}}
       {\iffieldequals{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}
          {\setunit{\addcomma\space}%
           \usebibmacro{cite:extralabel}}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \setunit{\addspace}%
           \usebibmacro{cite:extralabel}%
           \savefield{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}}}}
\makeatother

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{given-family}
\AtBeginBibliography{\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefamily}{\textsc}}

\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\mkbibemph{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{journaltitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\mkbibbold{#1}}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,worman,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

---

biblatex 3.12 features a new extraname counter that we can use here instead of the hack with extraalpha. Simply replace extraalpha with extraname in the code above and drop \DeclareLabelalphaTemplate and the labelalpha option.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=philosophy-modern, backend=biber, giveninits, uniquename=init, mergedate=false, volnumformat=plain]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\renewbibmacro*{relateddate}{%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \printtext[parens]{\printdate}}
\renewbibmacro*{commarelateddate}{\usebibmacro{relateddate}}

\renewbibmacro{date+extradate}{%
  \postsepyear{%
    \usebibmacro{extralabel}}}

\DeclareFieldFormat{extraname}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}
\newbibmacro{extralabel}{%
  \iffieldundef{extraname}
    {\printtext[extraname]{1}}
    {\printfield{extraname}}}

\newbibmacro{cite:extralabel}{%
  \printtext[bibhyperref]{\usebibmacro{extralabel}}}

\makeatletter
\renewbibmacro*{cite:AY:noshorthand}{%
  \ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:reinit}}
       {\iffieldequals{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}
          {\setunit{\addcomma\space}%
           \usebibmacro{cite:extralabel}}
          {\printnames{labelname}%
           \setunit{\addspace}%
           \usebibmacro{cite:extralabel}%
           \savefield{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}}}}
\makeatother

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{given-family}
\AtBeginBibliography{\renewcommand*{\mkbibnamefamily}{\textsc}}

\DeclareFieldFormat*{title}{\mkbibemph{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat*{journaltitle}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\mkbibbold{#1}}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,worman,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The output is the same.