On 05.08.2011, at 15:47, Gerrit Glabbart wrote:

> 
> Am Freitag, 5. August 2011 schrieb Sebastian <[email protected]>:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral
> > thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!)
> >
> > For my field (Theology in Germany) I need a bibliography style that produces
> > a full reference in a footnote and in the bibliography. 
> 
> If you're just getting started with LaTeX now, I would strongly suggest you 
> look at the BibLaTeX package (installed as standard in TeX Live, and possibly 
> MikTeX). It is being actively developed (which jurabib, iirc, is not), has a 
> detailed manual, and if it doesn't have the exact style you need ( and it 
> might, I haven't checked), it is reputed to be easier to customize than plain 
> BibTeX is. 

Just another vote for biblatex. If there is a an "old school" bibtex .bst style 
which exactly fits your needs, use that of course. But since there probably 
isn't one (I'm in German humanities, so I guess I know roughly what you need), 
forget about .bst files or custom-bib. It's really not worth bothering, you 
wont achieve what you need with those tools. There are already several very 
good biblatex styles which should come close to what you need, and if you need 
to make changes for your special needs, biblatex is pure joy, while changing 
.bst files is dark magic.

Simon

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