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The biblatex-archaeology styles for German cultural anthropology

Objective

biblatex-archaeology provides a collection of style files for LaTeΧ’ biblatex bibliography package. It is designed for the use of German researchers into material culture, especially prehistorians and medieval archaeologists. Generally their bibliography styles are more or less variations of the guide lines of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (RGK), nowithstanding of being verbose, numeric or inline styles. I tried to develop generic styles, that cover all the needs and allow for easy generation of local styles. Refer to the enclosed manual document for further details.

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Help

Since biblatex-archaeology is an extension to the well-known biblatex package, first make sure that you have a basic knowledge of the latter. Then read the main part of the biblatex-archaeology manual carefully.

If there are any concerns, use the comment function below on this page, or use the GitHub tracker (see sources). If it should not be available to the public, you can drop me an e-mail employing the contact form of this site (via menu link).

As a sidenote, my online biblatex editor supports the additional biblatex-archaeology fields.

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Examples

Find a sample document (PDF) for every end user style here:

  1. aefkw: Ägyptologische Forschungsstätte für Kulturwissenschaft
  2. afwl: Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in Westfalen-Lippe
  3. amit: Eurasien-Abteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan)
  4. archa: Archaeologia Austriaca (obsolete)
  5. dguf: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (obsolete)
  6. dguf-alt: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (obsolete)
  7. dguf-apa: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (current)
  8. eaz: Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift (current)
  9. eaz-alt: Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift (obsolete)
  10. foe: Fundberichte aus Österreich
  11. jb-halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
  12. jb-kreis-neuss: Kreisheimatbund Neuss e. V.
  13. karl: Karl. Das kulturelle Schachmagazin
  14. kunde: Die Kunde
  15. maja: Münchner Arbeitskreis Junge Aegyptologie
  16. mpk: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (obsolete)
  17. mpkoeaw: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (current)
  18. niedersachsen: Archäologische Kommission für Niedersachsen e. V.
  19. nnu: Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
  20. offa: Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
  21. rgk-inline: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (author date), 2018
  22. rgk-inline-old: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (author date), pre-2018
  23. rgk-numeric: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (numeric), 2018
  24. rgk-numeric-old: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (numeric), pre-2018
  25. rgk-verbose: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (verbose), 2018
  26. rgk-verbose-old: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (verbose), pre-2018
  27. rgzm-inline: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (author date)
  28. rgzm-numeric: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (numeric)
  29. rgzm-verbose: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (verbose)
  30. ufg-muenster-inline: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie (author date)
  31. ufg-muenster-numeric: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie (numeric)
  32. ufg-muenster-verbose: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie (verbose)
  33. volkskunde: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde
  34. zaak: Kommission für Archäologie außereuropäischer Kulturen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
  35. zaes: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

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Sources

There are two ways to obtain the sources. The development code is hosted on GitHub. It includes Perl and shell scripts to speed up the development process but lacks ready-to-install LaTeΧ sources and PDF docs as those are generated from a DocStrip container. The GitHub files are divided into a development and a master branch. The development branch holds the current status of the development while the master branch provides the development code of the current release.

$ git clone https://github.com/CarlOrff/biblatex-archaeology.git

The CTAN distribution lacks all development-only scripts but contains the full bundle of production files in return. The path on the mirrors is

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-archaeology

As it provides only the current release you can obtain past releases here. These are the original archives as were uploaded to CTAN. A TDS compliant archive is included starting with v2.2. A changelog is to be found in the manual.

  • v1.0 ()
  • v1.1 (as far as I remember the CTAN archive did not work at all due to an incident under the packaging process. Anyway, the follow-up release came in very soon.)
  • v1.2 ()
  • v1.3 ()
  • v2.0 ()
  • v2.1 ()
  • v2.2 (December 30, 2019)

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Copyright and License

© 2005–2019 by Ingram Braun

Published under the LaTeΧ Project Public License 1.3c or later.

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2 Responses

  1. Hey, great package there!

    Got two remarks about rgk-inline:

    According to documenation:

    “shortseries =

    If , the shortseries field is copied into the series field”

    That’s not the case. And I see that shortseries field is not even used in example file.

    According to latest versin of RGK guide lines there need to be a space character before and after ‘/’ to separate elements.

    Reply

    • Thanks for your hints.

      In the example file the strings that resolve to series titles are directly written into the series field. This is the way you would do with the standard styles since they do not evaluate the shortseries field at all. Putting the full title in the series field and linking through strings in the shortseries field leads to a better legible source. It is up to you what you like best.

      You are right with the shortseries bug (shortjournal is ok). This will be fixed in v. 2.2 which I hope to upload in the course of next week. The changed name delimiter in RGK styles will be the default then.

      Again, thanks for the hints.

      Reply

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