Style Request: BibTeX's plain style

timalb

Hello,

I am looking for a reproduction of BibTeX's plain.bst style in CSL: http://ftp.cs.stanford.edu/pub/tex/bibtex/plain.bst

Link to the official BibTeX CTAN package with plain.bst and other common styles that have no CSL reproduction (abbrv.bst, siam.bst, unsrt.bst): https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/base

In-text citation:
[1]
[1, 2] (consecutive citations are merged)

Bibliography (the text between underscores "_blabla_" denotes italic text):

[1] John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen. The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success.
_Comparative Political Studies_, 40(3):307–332, 2007.

[2] Isabela Mares. Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter
to employers? In Peter A Hall and David Soskice, editors, _Varieties of capitalism. The
institutional foundations of comparative advantage_, pages 184–213. Oxford University Press,
New York, 2001.

I give more examples in the screen captures of my next message below. Here is also a publicly available paper using BibTeX's plain bibliography style (and the LIPIcs template): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.10057

For the context, I am developing a reproduction of the Dagstuhl LIPIcs article format (https://typst.app/universe/package/para-lipics) in Typst, a modern alternative to LaTeX. However, LIPIcs relies on the old plain.bst style of BibTeX, and Typst only uses Zotero's CSL standard for handling bibliography. Therefore, I'm looking for a CSL equivalent of plain.bst.

I wouldn't be surprised if other publishers, apart from Dagstuhl, also rely on BibTeX's old styles, instead of writing their own CSL style.

Thanks.

EDIT: Added citation examples

damnation

Is this what you're looking for?
https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=bibtex

timalb

Thanks for the pointer but no that's no it ahah, this CSL generates BibTeX code from the bibliography entries:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14142206/yo90dqgomaq9drseiabf.png

I guess this could be useful for converting across bibliography formats, but that's not what I'm looking for.

This is the plain.bst style I want to get (this is the official LIPIcs LaTeX template):

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14142206/5njelmmh8dugwlqrk39m.png

And this is the closest result I could get, using the "association-for-computing-machinery.csl" style (this is my Typst LIPIcs-like template):

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14142206/eq9mizqf78o3vgyfk1no.png

damnation

Ah, just a normal style then?
You should be able to adapt that fairly easy.
There is other styles than the one you mention that will be closer though and will require less editing. (PNAS, Frontiers in Optic, Shock...)

See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

timalb

So I guess no one wrote this style before, I will try to do it myself then. Can I submit the CSL to the Zotero database after, so that other people will be able to find it?

damnation

Potentially, yes. If it's documented somewhere we'd be more likely to accept it then.

timalb

Are there recommendations/guidelines for writing the CSL documentation? How do we submit it to Zotero's maintainers? Should we post a new thread?

damnation

The usual thing is that a style for a journal/university is documented on the journals/uni's website. Either as .html or in .pdf format. This info is given to the author/students so they have something to guide them when writing a manuscript.
And if not that, style guides like APA or Chicago would be published books+online.

The style you show above, where do you get the info that it needs to look the way it needs to look?

adamsmith

I think the question is about https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md