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josephwright / biblatex-phys

A biblatex implementation of the AIP and APS bibliography style
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biblatex + REVTeX #12

Closed adoa closed 7 years ago

adoa commented 8 years ago

biblatex-phys is designed to mimic the behavior of REVTeX. I have a question regarding this very simple fact. REVTeX, as far as I have understood, uses natbib internally. But I cannot load biblatex is natbib is loaded. However, APS and AIP demand the use of the REVTeX class.

Can I use biblatex + biblatex-phys + biber in combination with REVTeX for manuscripts? Is there a "fork" of REVTeX that does not use natbib? How else am I supposed to use biblatex-phys?

josephwright commented 8 years ago

The biblatex-phys bundle exists to allow people requiring physics bibliography styles to do so in combination with biblatex, for example in reports, theses, etc.

For submission to journal you always need to check exactly what they mandate/support. In the case of the APS and AIP they require use of REVTeX and so that's what you should use: load only such additional packages as are required to write your document. In particular, you have to use the natbib interface for referencing and the official styles which go with that (i.e. you can't choose a different .bst file from those that come with REVTeX, much less a different bibliography approach entirely).

yuttai commented 7 years ago

Even if I want to submit to APS, can I follow the following workaround to set aside natbib and use biblatex? Since we still loads natbib, but just ignore it. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37076/is-it-possible-to-load-biblatex-with-a-class-that-has-already-loaded-natbib/37077#37077

Besides, since APS requires journal abbreviations, is it possible to display shortjournal field instead of journaltitle field when shortjournal field is available? Thanks.

josephwright commented 7 years ago

I really can't recommend using biblatex to submit to a journal which doesn't support it. For titles, I would expect you to simply abbreviate in your database: certainly I never store full journal titles as my subject area (chemistry) always cites using abbreviations.

yuttai commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your suggestion! After I found your method in stackexchange cannot work in LyX, I rolled back to bibTeX... (sigh) And I will use abbreviations in the journal in .bib file : )