
I've always used the "address" field for this. There's also something about "templates" in the preferences that looks like it might work for more formats (word, html), but I've never used this part of bibdesk.Ĭan you really not supply publication location data? Seems like this is standard for books, but I don't see a field.
#Bibdesk templates pdf
Now you can use the "preview" button to get a pdf and text preview, and if you right click on a selected entry or entries you get a "copy to text" option that should work, though you'll need to add back in underlines or whatever. Make sure the mla style file that jacobm links can be found by latex (the bibdesk manual suggests "~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst" I had to create that directory but it worked) and type "mla" in the box in the "preview" preferences pane. (I have it in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/, but this depends on how you install it). First, make sure latex is installed and set the paths so that bibdesk knows where it is (Typeset Preview preferences pane). You need to configure bibdesk so that it is able to use bibtex/latex to render the entries you want in the way you want. 34 BibDesk can format entire bibliographies internally either via previews that use BibDesk's export templates or via previews of LaTeX output. I think you can set bibdesk up to do what you want, more or less. Sample templates are included for plain text, RTF, HTML, RSS, and some other XML formats, and other templates are available on the BibDesk wiki. Posted by jacobm at 6:29 PM on October 23, 2007 Format Styles Converters BibTeX Format Templates.

The quick BibTeX guide All you ever need to know about BibTeX. Somewhere in the document (and remove any other lines that say \bibliographystyle). BibTeX template files for article: author title journal year. I'm not sure about the former question, but for the latter you need to download a file called mla.bst and put it in the same directory as your latex file, and then add the line
#Bibdesk templates how to
So I can read your question in two ways and I'm not sure which you intend: Do you mean that you want to manage your bibliography database using BibDesk but write your documents in something other than LaTeX? Or do you mean you want to write your documents in LaTeX but you don't know how to change the default bibliography style so that it's MLA?


If you're preparing a document with LaTeX, another program (bibtex) handles taking a bibliography database and a specific document and making that document's bibliography in whatever style you choose. In time I should have all the entry types done. BibDesk manages bibliography databases - like, just the raw information about what a citation means - it doesn't have any notion of specific bibliography formats like MLA or APA or whatnot. Here are a few bibtex templates 1) that I use with the dokuwiki bibtex plugin.
