GOST is a bundle of BibTEX styles to format references according to the State Standards on information, librarianship and publishing (GOST) issued by The Russian Federation and Interstate Committee of former USSR States.

Current version is 1.2k, 2020.12.25.

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

The System of State Standards includes:

GOST 7.80 -2000  Bibliographic record.
                 Heading. General requirements and rules.
GOST 7.83 -2001  Electronic editions. Basic types and imprint.
GOST 7.1  -2003  Bibliographic record.
                 Bibliographic description.
                 General requirements and rules.
GOST 7.11 -2004  Bibliographic description and references.
                 Rules for the abbreviation of words and word
                 combinations in foreign European languages.
GOST 7.0.5-2008  Bibliographic reference.
                 General requirements and rules of making.

Etc.

Currently, GOST contains 16 BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.0.5-2008 and GOST 7.1-2003. Both 8-bit and Unicode (UTF-8) versions of each BibTeX style, in each case offering a choice of sorted and unsorted.

All styles in the GOST bundle are derived from single master file gost.dtx by applying different set of options as shown in the table below.

Gost2008 style is recommended for most applications. It corresponds to the currently effective Standard 7.0.5-2008. Librarians should use the style gost2003 instead of gost2008 to compile a library catalog to meet the Standard 7.1-2003. Use of other styles is best explained through the meaning of options used to compile those styles from the master source.

The strict option provides conformance to the Standard 7.1-2003. The bibstyles compiled with that option bear the name gost2003 with possible suffixes s, l, n as explained below. These styles are intended primarily for the librarians who compose a library catalog.

The bibstyles compiled without strict option meets the Standard 7.0.5-2008 which can be thought off as a relaxed version of the Standards 7.1-2003. These bibstyles bear the name gost2008 with possible suffixes s, l, n.

If the number of authors exceeds 4, modern styles cut the list of authors to at most 4 persons as prescibed by the Standards. Option long overrides this rule to provide backward compatibility with the package disser by Stanislab Kruchinin. Two styles, gost2008l and gost2008ls, compiled with the option long mimic behavior of the styles gost705 and gost705s from the disser package. Major effect of the long option is that the list of authors always precedes book or article title no matter how long is it. Modern styles compiled without long place long list of authors behind the title. The names of styles compiled with the option long has the suffix l. Recall that those styles do not conform effective Standards and their use is discouraged.

The eprint option enables formatting electronic publications. In particular, it enables eprint, eprinttype, eprintclass, and doi fields for a bibliographic entry. The styles generated without the eprint option, ignore the these fields. Starting from the version 1.2 of the GOST package, all modern styles are compiled with this option included, and the suffix e which designated this option in earlier versions is not appended to the name of style any more.

The natbib option provides compatibility with the natbib package. The names of styles compiled with the option natbib bear the suffix n. Currently 4 styles with that option are available for beta testing.

The sort option enables sorting bibliographic references by author names and references titles. The names of styles compiled with the option sort bear the suffix s.

Finally, the utf8 option produces bibliographic styles in unicode rather that in 8-bit encoding. Names of those styles bear the prefix u.

Beyond bibliographic style, GOST bundle contains CS files (codepage and sorting order).

In addition, BibTeX8 distribution comes with few more CSFs.

1. Select bibliography style by adding appropriate \bibliographystyle declaration to your source file \file{.tex}, e.g.

\bibliographystyle{gost2008}
\bibliography{database}

2. Add the field language="ukrainian" or language="russian" to the bibliographic entries in Ukrainian or Russian languages in your database; English is the default language. German, Italian and French are partially supported.

3. To compile list of references from your database use bibtex8.exe rather than bibtex.exe. Depending on the codepage of your bibliographic database, indicate one of the CS files listed above as option to bibtex8.exe. Run LaTeX, then run bibTeX8 and LaTeX again:

latex <filename>.tex
bibtex8 -B -c <csf_file>.csf <filename>.aux
latex <filename>.tex

4. For details on preparing bibliographic database see examples in gost*.pdf and ugost*.pdf.

5. ugost* styles are primarily intended for use with unicode compilers (xelatex and lualatex). They should be preferred as well when using 8bit compilers (latex and pdflatex) if source file is in utf8 encoding.

6. Neither bibtex.exe nor bibtex8.exe provides correct sorting order of unicode text. It means that using ugost2008s or ugost2008ns may produce unexpected result for documents in utf8 encoding.

7. Bibtex8 fails to change case of a string if it contains Cyrillic letter in unicode. Therefore ugost2008* styles do not change case of titles and other parts of bibliographic record while 8-bit styles do the case change where appropriate.

8. Either bibtex.exe or bibtex8.exe fail to cut Cyrillic names to initials. Therefore ugost2008* styles do not modify name of authors.

9. Package natbib is required when choosing styles with suffix n in their names.

Every GOST style defines few commands to format some parts of a reference. You can redefine these commands prior to the \bibliography{<bibtex_style>} command. Initial definitions are listed below.

\providecommand*{\url}[1]{{\small #1}}
\providecommand*{\BibUrl}[1]{\url{#1}}
\providecommand{\BibAnnote}[1]{}
\providecommand*{\BibEmph}[1]{#1}

By default, gost styles separate logical parts of a bibliography record by a period and cyrdash (. "---). It is legitimate to drop that dash by overriding the command \BibDash as follows

\providecommand*{\BibDash}{}

By default, \BibDash is equivalent to the shorthand "--- defined by the babel package with the option russian. It prints a so called Cyrillic dash (\cyrdash), which is 20 % shorter then ordinary LaTeX dash (---), and puts unbreakable space before \cyrdash so that dash never appears in the beginning of a line.

1. http://ctan.org/pkg/gost.

2. http://github.com/kia999/gost

Run pdflatex.exe gost.ins to produce .bst styles. You might need to install LH or cm-super fonts.

Run

makeindex -r -s gind.ist gost
makeindex -r -s gglo.ist -o gost.gls gost.glo
pdflatex gost.dtx
pdflatex gost.dtx

to produce .bst styles and documentation.

1. All stuff is now generated from gost.dtx.

2. Limited support of the date field added.

3. Formatting of doi field updated: http://dx.doi.org changed to https://doi.org.

4. Documentation and examples update (thanks to Leonid Sinev).

5. Formatting of @inproceedings and @proceedings improved.

1. Documentation and examples update (thanks to Leonid Sinev).

2. Restored @MastersThesis instead of @MasterThesis (thanks to Leonid Sinev).

3. media="eresource" is introduced in addition to media="online" and media="text"; if present, the media field is not ignored any more in modern bst-styles compiled without the strict option.

4. location field is introduced as an alias of address field.

5. @DSCISTHESIS entry renamed to @DOCTHESIS.

6. school field in @THESIS and similar entries is replaced by institution to comply with biblatex-gost style.

7. specialitycode is added for @THESIS and similar entries; number is treated as alias of specialitycode.

8. type field in @THESIS and similar entries can now accept three values (mathesis, phdthesis, docthesis) which are translated to built-in language-sensitive strings; any other value is reproduced literally.

1. Minor changes in documentation.

1. Minor changes in documentation.

1. Support for @patent entry added (thanks to Stanislav Kruchinin).
2. medium field renamed to media field.

1. Hard coded "URL" string replaced with a language sensitive string (thanks to Roman Budnyi).

1. jan, feb, mar, e.t.c. month macros fixed;
2. New macro format.month.
3. \cyrdash is now faked via \ProvideTextCommandDefault if not defined.

1. langid field added; language field supported for backward compatibility.
2. eid field added, it has priority over pages field;
3. Fix Gost2003: "--- replaced by \BibDash;
4. Spacing around \BibDash improved.

1. numpages renamed to pagetotal.

1. \cyrdash is now defined via \ProvideTextCommand rather than \providecommand.

1. Code refactoring. All styles are now generated from single source file.
2. Support for GOST-7.1-2003. The field medium is added to reflect type of material. For most entry types medium defaults to text.
3. Support for natbib package.
4. All modern styles are now compiled with the eprint option.

1. Support for GOST 7.0.5-2008 and GOST 7.1-2003 is provided.
2. @Online entry is added to format a reference to electronic resource on Internet.
3. @MastersThesis entry is added to format a reference to master's thesis. @DSciThesis entry is added to format a reference to doctor of sciences thesis.
4. Urldate, eprint, eprintclass, eprinttype fields are added.

2012.08.31 \cyrdash is now defined via \ProvideTextCommand. 2012.02.22 Support for |natbib| package. 2012.02.02 Adaptation to GOST 7.0.5, electronic publishing. 2005.08.12 First version uploaded to CTAN. 2003.06.06 First public version.

See gost.pdf.

Please, submit feature requests and issue reports via https://github.com/kia999/GOST/issues.

Happy BibTeXing!