Having to edit a document of a friend studying "art history" and "english language", I created this LaTeX template after some research on the bibliography styles needed for those fields.
The bib style needed was : MLA. The default MLA install of LaTeX didn't match what was expected, and I found
mla-good.bst.
You can download it here :
http://www.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/images/mla-good.bst.zip or here :
http://pastebin.com/bBg7CUkM (and others styles :
http://www.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/bibtexstyles.html).
%% LaTeX Template for littérature student, using article class and mla-good.bst
%% by : Corentin Mehat (30 Novembre 2012)
%% compile it using :
%% "rubber -d "
%% or "pdflatex ; bibtex ; pdflatex "
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}% font, a4paper : paper size
\usepackage{fullpage} % reduce the default margin
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % encoding : UTF8
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % fonts
\usepackage{lmodern} % to avoid the use of bitmap fonts.
\usepackage{amsmath} % math for "XV$^{ème}$ siècle"
\usepackage{amssymb} % math
\usepackage{graphicx} % Deal with external images (cf. template code at the end)
%\usepackage{setspace} % spacing lines
%\doublespacing
%\onehalfspacing
%\setstretch{baselinestretch}
\usepackage[english]{babel} % English hyphenation
%\usepackage[french]{babel} % French hyphenation
\usepackage[round, authoryear, sectionbib]{natbib} % Deal with the references & Bibliography
% To generate the bib file on the first compilation of this file. Run BibLaTeX over it after, and recompile
%code in the next begin/end must be a well formed bibtex file
\begin{filecontents}{outputed-biblio-file.bib}
\end{filecontents}
% For "TODO" notes : \todo{...} or \todo[inline]{...}
\usepackage[disable]{todonotes} %disable
%\usepackage[french,colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes} %enable
%
\usepackage[a4paper,colorlinks,plainpages=false,pdftex,backref]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
unicode=false, % non-Latin characters in Acrobat’s bookmarks
pdftoolbar=true, % show Acrobat’s toolbar?
pdfmenubar=true, % show Acrobat’s menu?
pdffitwindow=true, % page fit to window when opened
colorlinks=true, % false: boxed links; true: colored links
linkcolor=blue, % color of internal links
citecolor=green, % color of links to bibliography
filecolor=magenta, % color of file links
urlcolor=cyan, % color of external links
linktocpage=true, % make page number, not text, be link in TOC, LOF and LOT
breaklinks=true, % allow links to break over lines
pdfkeywords={keywork1, keyword2}, % list of keywords
pdftitle={Document Title (not printed, but in the pdf file)},
pdfauthor={Author of the document (not printed, but in the pdf file)},
pdfsubject={Subject of the document (not printed, but in the pdf file)}
}
\title{Title}
\author{author}
\date{\today} %
% % % % % % %%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
%\newcommand{\test}{THIS IS A TEST} %macro/command example
\maketitle
%\tableofcontents
\begin{abstract}
You can write your introduction / Abstract / Résumé of the doc here.
\end{abstract}
Write your document here
% Organise your document with : (put the section title into the '{}' )
%\section*{} % will not be numbered
%\section{} % will be numbered
%\subsection*{}
%\subsubsection{}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
%\includegraphics*[trim= 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm, angle=0,scale=0.45]{file-name}
\caption{cartel of the image}
\label{fig:a-unique-name} %in the text : \ref{fig:a-unique-name}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
% % % % BIBLIOGRAPHY
\newpage
\renewcommand\refname{Bibliography} % Change the bibliography heading title
% Use the "mla-good.bst" style file for bibliography (same directory, or installed where it should)
\bibliographystyle{mla-good} % for MLA bibliography style
\bibliography{outputed-biblio-file} % Use the outputted file for the ref.
\nocite{*} %include all refs from the file (not only the one \citeX{key}
\end{document}
