How to make automatic indenting using LaTeX, Winedt

[amt1018]

Hi everyone. Let me just say off the bat that I'm very new to LaTeX,
although I would like to use it for papers/articles.

I cannot find the appropriate \bibliographystyle for formating my
bibliography ("American Ethnologist"). (I have searched google.com up
and down and cannot find it, but it does need to look like that. I'll
blame my advisor.)

Let me just come out and say I cannot figure out how to manually
configure a \bibliographystyle file. (I did download something off of
the internet that did not work - it was supposed to work 'in' LaTeX but
it did not run at all.) I've accepted that I'm just going to have to
manually enter the citations (which isn't a big deal, since there
aren't hundreds, only a few dozen, and I already have them written).

Essentially, a citation will need to look like this (and assume that
the page is very narrow):

Doe, John
(0.25 inch indent) 2006 The Title is Here. The title continues up to
about here
(0.5 inch indent) where the writing continues onto the 3rd, 4th lines
if necessary.

So, it looks kind of like this:

Doe, John
2006 The Title Is Here. The Journal is called blah blah
blah blah blah blah.

Is there a way I can set up a section in LaTeX to automatically convert
text that looks like:

Doe, John
2005 blah yada yada yada yada yada.... yada.

to the second example above?

Someone suggested possibly making two paragraphs... someone else
suggested \hangindent and/or \parshape commands. I'm thoroughly
confused. Any help would be appreciated!

Aaron

PS: If that's not possible, could one set up an automatic command to
have the first line left flush, but the second and following lines be
indented by 0.5 inches?

[amt1018]

I actually have a PSPS:

I found that using the following code:

Doe, John
\par
\leftskip=0.5in{\noindent}2006 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah bh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

You get:

Doe, John
2006 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah bh blah blah blah blah blah

I've done some searches in this forum, others, and in google.com, about
'negative indent(ing)'? What are your thoughts on that? Is that
applicable here (insofar that I want a three tiered approach)?

Thanks again - Aaron

[Matt]

I've thought about your situation for a while, and I can't come up with
an acceptable "manual coding" solution. Sure, you can manually enter
\par and \hspace*{} all day long, but I have the feeling that it won't
work very well.

One thing you might want to consider is the custom-bib package:

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/custom-bib.html

which should allow you to make customized bibliographies (as the name
suggests).

I've searched the BibTeX Style examples:

http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html

and there doesn't seem to be one that fits your situation/format. The
format/styles on this page:

http://www.music.columbia.edu/~cecenter/AES/amereth.html

are very unique ... and on multi-line references, I think it would be
very difficult to code manually (but there are a couple that are
"close" - so you might be able to slighly alter the bibtex styles ...
but, that's a little difficult).

Aside from that, you might get lucky with some of the other
Bibliography packages:

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#bibliography

there are a lot of styles, and I'm sure that you aren't the first
person to have this problem (though, it does seem to be a unique style
and problem.) :-)

Lastly (and probably the simplest solution)... I'd just email/call an
editor of the journal, and ask what bibliogrpahy style file they use.
I'm sure (hope) they use some form of LaTeX, so they should have their
own bibliography style file, or something of that nature.

In any case - good luck. Sorry I wan't any help. But please post back
with any updates ... this is a very interesting problem.

[amt1018]

Thank you for your reply - and it does help. I tried to walk away for
a while (and simply use MS Word), but I have a feeling I'm going to be
going crazy over it yet again!

Thanks again and have a great day!
Aaron