The apalike-german package: an author year style for BibTeΧ

Objective

I made apalike-german.bst because I was forced to use plain old BibTeΧ in conjunction with apalike.bst but I needed German localization. It is simply a copy of the original file. My editions concern the following:

Inserted words were translated to German.
Puryifing of label numbers is removed. Thus, dots in the label year shall not be removed.
Capitalization of title words will remain.

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Installing

Create the directory {TEXMF}/bibtex/bst/apalike-german, move apalike-german.bst there and update the file name database.

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Usage

First let me point out that if you are not forced to use plain BibTeΧ it is much better to rely on the biblatex package, preferably in conjunction with Biber (by the way, check out my biblatex-archaeology styles). Thus, you gain much more flexibility for your references. If you took this into account, call bibliographystyle{apalike-german} as usual after begin{document}.

In case a numerical year lacks you can use an expression like n.d.:

    @MISC{undated-item,
      ...
      year = {o.J.},
    }

The dots get preserved, but only four digits are allowed!

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History

11-sep-2016: Original version by Ingram Braun
17-mar-2018: Macro mar bug fixed (Issue #1).

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Sources

Clone it from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/CarlOrff/apalike-german.git

or download it from CTAN:

CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/apalike-german

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Copyright and License

Published under theLaTeΧ Project Public License 1.3c or later.

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