biblatex-oxref: Biblatex styles inspired by the Oxford Guide to Style

This bundle provides four biblatex styles that implement (some of) the stipulations and examples provided by the 2014 New Hart's Rules and the 2002 Oxford Guide to Style:

• oxnotes is a style similar to the standard verbose, intended for use with footnotes;
• oxnum is a style similar to the standard numeric, intended for use with numeric in-text citations.
• oxalph is a style similar to the standard alphabetic, intended for use with alphabetic in-text citations.
• oxyear is a style similar to the standard authoryear, intended for use with parenthetical in-text citations.

Installation

Dependencies

To compile the documentation you will need to have the minted package working, which in turn relies on Python 2.6+ and Pygments. See the documentation of that package for details.

Managed way

The latest stable release of the biblatex-oxref bundle has been packaged for TeX Live and MiKTeX. If you are running TeX Live and have tlmgr installed, you can install the bundle simply by running tlmgr install biblatex-oxref. If you are running MiKTeX, you can install the bundle by running mpm --install=biblatex-oxref. Both tlmgr and mpm have GUI versions that you might find friendlier.

Automated way

A makefile is provided which you can use with the Make utility on UNIX-like systems:

• Running make source generates the derived files

  • README.md
  • oxref.bbx, oxnotes.bbx, oxnotes-ibid.bbx, oxnotes-note.bbx, oxnotes-inote.bbx, oxnotes-trad1.bbx, oxnotes-trad2.bbx, oxnotes-trad3.bbx, oxyear.bbx, oxnum.bbx, oxalph.bbx
  • oxnotes.cbx, oxnotes-ibid.cbx, oxnotes-note.cbx, oxnotes-inote.cbx, oxnotes-trad1.cbx, oxnotes-trad2.cbx, oxnotes-trad3.cbx, oxyear.cbx, oxnum.cbx, oxalph.cbx
  • american-oxref.lbx, british-oxref.lbx, english-oxref.lbx, spanish-oxref.lbx, polish.lbx
  • oxnotes.dbx, oxnotes-ibid.dbx, oxnotes-note.dbx, oxnotes-inote.dbx, oxnotes-trad1.dbx, oxnotes-trad2.dbx, oxnotes-trad3.dbx, oxyear.dbx, oxnum.dbx, oxalph.dbx
  • oxref.bib
  • oxref.ins
  • oxnotes-doc.tex, oxyear-doc.tex, oxnum-doc.tex, oxalph-doc.tex

• Running make generates the above files and also oxref.pdf, oxnotes-doc.pdf, oxyear-doc.pdf, oxnum-doc.pdf and oxalph-doc.pdf.

• Running make inst installs the files in the user's TeX tree. You can undo this with make uninst.

• Running make install installs the files in the local TeX tree. You can undo this with make uninstall.

• Running make clean removes auxiliary files from the working directory.

• Running make distclean removes the generated files from the working directory as well.

Manual way

To install the bundle from scratch, follow these instructions. If you have downloaded the zip file from the Releases page on GitHub, you can skip the first two steps.

1. Run luatex oxref.dtx to generate the source files. (You can safely skip this step if you are confident about step 2.)

2. Compile oxref.dtx, oxnotes-doc.tex, oxyear-doc.tex, and oxnum-doc.tex with LuaLaTeX and Biber to generate the documentation. You will need to enable shell escape so that minted can typeset the listings.

3. Move the files to your TeX tree as follows:

   • source/latex/biblatex-oxref: oxref.dtx, (oxref.ins)
   • tex/latex/biblatex-oxref: american-oxref.lbx, british-oxref.lbx, english-oxref.lbx, spanish-oxref.lbx, polish-oxref.lbx, oxalph.bbx, oxalph.cbx, oxalph.dbx, oxnotes.bbx, oxnotes.cbx, oxnotes.dbx, oxnotes-ibid.bbx, oxnotes-ibid.cbx, oxnotes-ibid.dbx, oxnotes-inote.bbx, oxnotes-inote.cbx, oxnotes-inote.dbx, oxnotes-note.bbx, oxnotes-note.cbx, oxnotes-note.dbx, oxnotes-trad1.bbx, oxnotes-trad1.cbx, oxnotes-trad1.dbx, oxnotes-trad2.bbx, oxnotes-trad2.cbx, oxnotes-trad2.dbx, oxnotes-trad3.bbx, oxnotes-trad3.cbx, oxnotes-trad3.dbx, oxnum.bbx, oxnum.cbx, oxnum.dbx, oxref.bbx, oxyear.bbx, oxyear.cbx, oxyear.dbx
   • doc/latex/biblatex-oxref: README.md, oxalph-doc.pdf, oxalph-doc.tex, oxnotes-doc.pdf, oxnotes-doc.tex, oxnum-doc.pdf, oxnum-doc.tex, oxref.bib, oxref.pdf, oxyear-doc.pdf, oxyear-doc.tex

4. You may then have to update your installation's file name database before TeX and friends can see the files.

Licence

Copyright 2016–2023 Alex Ball.

This work consists of the documented LaTeX file oxref.dtx and a Makefile.

The text files contained in this work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version.

This work is ‘maintained’ (as per LPPL maintenance status) by Alex Ball.