Michael Ian Lapsley

I am using Microsoft Windows 7 (and Windows XP at home) and I use Word to create documents.  You must first be familiar with Word, Jabref, MikTex, and Bibtex4word before this will make sense. Start by reading the Bibtex4word documentation. These three programs will allow you to automatically create bibliographies in word.

Here is a manual for Miktex

Below is a list of style types that I use regularly:

• ieeetr/cn^s - good for most conferences
• phaip/cn[]^s - actual APL (AIP) file but use et al. for over 5 name which APL does not allow.
• phjcp/cn[]^s - like APL and does not use et al. but has lower caps in names. ~ this can be made to match APL almost perfectly if you highlight all of the references, press ctrl+d, uncheck the small caps option.
• phnflet - like APL without et al. but uses all caps and DOI in wrong place.
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• rsc/cn[]^s - RSC reference type such as Lab on a Chip
• achemso/cn[]^s - America chemical society

Other people have more comprehensive lists of styles:

• http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/perl/index.html
• http://web.reed.edu/cis/Help/LaTeX/bibtexstyles.html 

Most Journals have a style. It is best to find one that already exists because modifying and creating them is a real pain.

Modifying .bst files:

The first thing to know about this is that it is really anoying. I have been trying to figure this out for weeks and still have had little luck. There are many many websites that give information, but must of the time it is not that helpful.

Finding my .bst files: This is much more difficult that it seems. I though they would be in the "Program Files/miketex2.8" folder. Nope. I finally found them in:

"C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.8\bibtex" ~ in Windows 7
"C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.8\bibtex\bst" ~ in Windows XP

thanks to some hits from this link.