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BibTeX style files for ecology journals

BibTeX Style Files for Ecology Journals

I created these .bst files using the custom-bib package for LaTeX. Where I could find my copy of the .dbj file I have included it as well. If you need to, you can make modifications to the .dbj file and re-run them to create modified .bst files.

I haven't tested these .bst files extensively, but they were adequate for my needs writing manuscripts for these journals. They have mostly been tested with journal articles, technical reports, and books.

All author-year style .bst files will require the natbib package to be loaded in the TeX preamble. For example:

\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{;}

Current journals included:

• BioScience bioscience.bst
• Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences cjfas.bst
• Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment frontecolenv.bst
• ICES Journal of Marine Science icesjms.bst
• Journal of Crustacean Biology jcrustbiol.bst
• Methods in Ecology and Evolution mee.bst
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences prsb.bst
• Trends in Ecology and Evolution tree.bst
• Fish and Fisheries fishfish.bst
• Fisheries Research fishres.bst (by @catarinawor)

These files are licensed under the The LaTeX Project Public License.

bst's Issues

mee.bst (Methods in Ecology and Evolution) does not give the expected result.

Using mee.bst I got [Manel et al. (1999)Manel, Smith & Smith] rather than (Manel et al. 1999) (See the author guidelines for the expected result).

Any idea why ?

Minimal example below:

test_mee.tex:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Hello world! \cite{prince_climate_2015} \cite{logue_empirical_2011} 

\bibliographystyle{mee}
\bibliography{cwm}

\end{document}

test_mee.bbl:

\begin{thebibliography}{2}
\providecommand{\natexlab}[1]{#1}

\bibitem[{Logue \emph{et~al.}(2011)Logue, Mouquet, Peter \&
  Hillebrand}]{logue_empirical_2011}
Logue, J.B., Mouquet, N., Peter, H. \& Hillebrand, H. (2011) Empirical
  approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory.
\newblock \emph{Trends in Ecology \& Evolution}, \textbf{26}, 482--491.

\bibitem[{Princé \& Zuckerberg(2015)}]{prince_climate_2015}

test_mee.blg:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
Capacity: max_strings=35307, hash_size=35307, hash_prime=30011
The top-level auxiliary file: test_mee.aux
The style file: mee.bst
Database file #1: cwm.bib
You've used 2 entries,
            2811 wiz_defined-function locations,
            598 strings with 4862 characters,
and the built_in function-call counts, 1721 in all, are:
= -- 156

Output: