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nsweeney@jesus.ox.ac.uk (Nick Sweeney) writes:

> Take III at getting a workable humanities style...
> 
> I've managed - at last! - to get oxford.sty to cite entries as footnotes,
> but I'd like to exploit its ability to use a short title in subsequent
> citations by including 'stitle={foobar}' in my .bib files. However, when I
> try to do this in AucTex/BibTeX modes in emacs, I get error
> messages. 

Might be helpful to see the error-message(s).

> I'm
> guessing that the problem lies with the way that bibtex-mode parses the
> various entries, but since I'm just recovering from a crash course in
> LaTeX programming, I'm not really up to poring through a big file in Lisp! 
> 
> Could anyone suggest how one might modify the bibtex-mode templates to 
> include 'stitle' elements, and have them parsed properly by BibTex?

Something like this should do:

(setq bibtex-user-optional-fields '(("stitle" "Short ???-title, used by oxford.sty")))

However, this obviously depends on what bibtex-mode you are using (I
think the variable used to be called bibtex-mode-user-optional-fields
in earlier versions of bibtex-mode --- this advice is for 

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.2, X toolkit)
 of Fri Sep 26 1997 on sisko
Package: bibtex.el (emacs 19.35)

Hope this helps

Sven

PS: I set the followup to gnu.emacs.help, since I think this is where
    you're question belongs...
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