bibtex ieeetr.bst: possible to suppress months and issue numbers?

[weg...@gmail.com]

Hi group,

I am busy finishing my thesis and am currently tweeking the
bibliography. The style the roughly does what I want is ieeetr.bst, so
I will probably use that one. The only thing I don't like is that it
lists the month and the issue number of journal papers. Is there any
way to suppress these? I could obviously delete all the "month =" and
"number = " lines in my bib-file, but with 100+ references this might
take some time. Or should I look for another style file?

Thanks in advance,
Bas

[Scott Pakin]

Try the following:

1) Copy ieeetr.bst to another name, say myieeetr.bst.

2) Delete the "month" and "number" fields from the ENTRY command's
first argument (near the top of the file).

3) Use \bibliographystyle{myieeetr} in your document.

-- Scott

[Nicolas Markey]

On Jul 5, 2006, Scott Pakin wrote:

> > [... no "month" and "number" ...]

> Try the following:
>
> 1) Copy ieeetr.bst to another name, say myieeetr.bst.
> 2) Delete the "month" and "number" fields from the ENTRY command's
> first argument (near the top of the file).
> 3) Use \bibliographystyle{myieeetr} in your document.

That's nearly ok, but BibTeX will complain that "number" and "month" are
unknown functions (they still appear in several functions...)

To get rid of this, it suffices to define those functions:
FUNCTION{month}{""}
FUNCTION{number}{""}

Best,

--
Nico

[Michael Shell]

On 5 Jul 2006 08:02:43 -0700
weg...@gmail.com wrote:

> The only thing I don't like is that it lists the month and the issue
> number of journal papers. Is there any way to suppress these?

ieeetr.bst is out of date. Try my IEEEtran.bst:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/bibtex/

IEEEtran.bst does allow you to shutoff the display of the issue number
via a control entry type (CTLuse_article_number="no"). See the control
entry type section at the end of the docs for details.

As far as stopping the display of the month goes, Scott's advice can
also be applied to IEEEtran.bst.

Cheers,

Mike Shell