[Journal] change of bibliography

[Martin Wegmann]

On Sunday 04 November 2007 10:14:34 Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007 5:41 PM, Martin Wegmann
>
> <wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> > Quoting Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il>:
> > > Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> > >> On 2-Nov-07, at 5:58 AM, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> > >>> Hello editors,
> > >>>
> > >>> what about changing the bibliography settings so that it appears in
> > >>> the same
> > >>> size as \section{} - this would perhaps solve some page-/linebreak
> > >>> problems and save some space.
> > >>> I have no idea where it is defined, but I also haven't looked so
> > >>> far. I think
> > >>> we can redefine this setting and "just" add a normal
> > >>> \section{Bibliography}.
> > >>> Any opinions?
> > >
> > > Doens't the {bibliography} section enable \cite{} in the body of the
> > > text  to link to the correct {bibitem}?
> >
> > yes it does - I don't want to remove the bibliography but just its
> > appearance.
> >
> > I'll look into it in the next couple of days.

I looked into the code and tried to change the appearance but failed so far 
using \renewcommand
Might it be an issue with bibitem syntax? I am using the bibtex syntax and 
redefined the title without problems. 

Any idea?

> I wonder if it would be better to change from bibitem to real bibtex
> for numerous reasons:
> - bibitem painful while bibtex easy to write
> - download bibtex from IEEE, Google Scholar, citeulike.org, ... nearly
> everywhere
>   (no handwritten bibitem stuff)
> - make single bibliographic file like RNews does:
> http://cran.at.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/
> - syntax checking through bibtex
> - easy style application to bibtex references

good idea - shall we do it for no. 3 already or postpone it to no. 4?

I will change the *.tex template for no. 4 to OSGeo and in case we use bibtex 
include a sample bibtex file. 

cheers, Martin