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My question is completely described in the title of this topic.

Maybe a short explanation of what the BIN Rules are: it's a complete guideline on how to do the typesetting of various sorts: formal letters, dissertations, reports and so on. It's used in Belgium, and it can be compared with the APA rules, by example.

Where can I find a good BibTeX style that follows the Belgian BIN Rules?

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  • Welcome to TeX SX! It will probably be easier to do that with biblatex, starting from a biblatex style close to what you want, say biblatex-apa, and patching it. – Bernard Jun 09 '17 at 21:17
  • You've tagged this both bibtex and biblatex but they use completely different style definitions. If nothing exists, biblatex would be easier. But it matters which you mean you need. – cfr Jun 10 '17 at 03:02
  • I don't mind about which one I have to use. Nothing exists yet, and for me, the look is more important than the packages used. Where can I get some textual examples of the different BibLaTeX styles? (I need textual examples, because I am a blind student.) – Jordy Deweer Jun 10 '17 at 07:53
  • Can you give us a link to the actual norm? I found http://www.kamaaseik.be/index%20bestanden/studiewijzer/onderzoekscompetenties/bin%20normen.pdf which states in section 4 'Wat nu volgt zijn algemene richtlijnen die kunnen w orden toegepast. Het is evenwel mogelijk dat in sommige vakgebieden [...] andere [...] regels dienen te worden toegepast. Kijk dus eerst na of u geen andere regels moet toepassen.' makes me think that the norm is not really clear. – moewe Jun 11 '17 at 16:30
  • Yes, but it is a Dutch version. I can translate it, if needed... This is the link to it: https://jordydeweer.stackstorage.com/s/eXTstE71fFiXHiY – Jordy Deweer Jun 11 '17 at 18:21
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    OK, I guess then that the BIN norm works more or less like ISO/DIN norms for bibliographies: The actual norm is quite liberal in what it really requires, but then all kinds of people slap on their favourite style and call it 'BIN'. Most of that is fairly easy. Do you really have to have underlines, though? – moewe Jun 12 '17 at 06:49
  • or it can be italic... It has to be something else than the other text... – Jordy Deweer Jun 12 '17 at 17:16

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This follows the document you uploaded. A few other guides I found on the web had different guidelines and also posed as 'BIN norm'. Note that your guide has inconsistencies between text and example. Furthermore you are missing many important entry types.

This is a start

\documentclass[dutch]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authortitle, giveninits=true, uniquename=init]{biblatex} % this is important
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{daras,
  author    = {Daras, K. and Dhaenens, J. J.},
  title     = {Rapporteren: een levenswerk},
  edition   = {3},
  publisher = {Uitgeverij Jozefa},
  location  = {Brugge},
  date      = {2010},
  pagetotal = {513}, 
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

%% the code from here on is important
%% BIN style - START
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\multinamedelim}
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space}


\renewbibmacro*{title}{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test {\iffieldundef{title}}
    and
    test {\iffieldundef{subtitle}}
  }
    {}
    {\printtext[title]{%
       \printfield[titlecase]{title}%
       \setunit{\subtitlepunct}%
       \printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}}%
     \newunit}%
  \printfield{titleaddon}
  \printunit{\addperiod\space}}

\renewbibmacro*{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}
    {}
    {\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}


\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
     \printfield{series}%
     \setunit{\addcomma\space}}%
  \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue}%
  \newunit}

\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{volume}{\bibstring{jourvol}~#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article,periodical]{number}{\bibstring{number}~#1}

\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{eid}}

\renewbibmacro*{issue+date}{%
  \printfield{issue}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\newbibmacro*{puborginst+location+date}[1]{%
  \printlist{publisher}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \printlist{location}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
  \usebibmacro{date}%
  \newunit}

\renewbibmacro*{publisher+location+date}{\usebibmacro{puborginst+location+date}{publisher}}
\renewbibmacro*{institution+location+date}{\usebibmacro{puborginst+location+date}{institution}}
\renewbibmacro*{organization+location+date}{\usebibmacro{puborginst+location+date}{organization}}

%% ... BIN style END ...


\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,daras}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

example output

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    "But i need BIN exactly." Almost seems like a practical joke. :-) – Johannes_B Jun 13 '17 at 08:11
  • I don't understand the example code... I am new to LaTeX and I can't understand what you wrote. And it doesn't matter, if it looks like the NBN norm, for me it's all right. Can I also solve this with an extern PDF file, created in Word? so the code is then: \chapter{bibliography} `\inlucdepdf{bibliography}' (when I added the package 'pdfpages')? – Jordy Deweer Jun 13 '17 at 08:40
  • @JordyDeweer The code changes some of the standard macros of biblatex to achieve what you want as output. Have a look at Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles for starters on the subject. Most macros have 'speaking names' and are responsible for what they say they are. If you only include a PDF file from word that has the references in it, LaTeX does not know about it and cannot generate the bibliography for you. In that case, you can't use biblatex to typeset your bibliography. – moewe Jun 13 '17 at 17:41
  • @Moewe Okay, I'll take a look there and thank you for the explanation. But, if I include a PDF, it also looks good? (It would be nicer when I use bibLaTeX, but if it's the fastest way, I can do so?) – Jordy Deweer Jun 14 '17 at 09:47
  • @JordyDeweer I'm not entirely sure what you mean with the included PDF. If your bibliography was created in Word (or any other program) and is only included as a PDF via \inlucdepdf you cannot use biblatex to change its appearance. The appearance is already fixed in the PDF. You will have to use BibTeX/biblatex way to obtain a bibliography with .bib files. Have a look at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management – moewe Jun 14 '17 at 09:59
  • @moewe Can I include the part of the code that changes the macros in an appart file?? – Jordy Deweer Jun 14 '17 at 20:33
  • @JordyDeweer You can use \input to include a .tex file to your preamble. You could then move the code from the preamble to an external file. (I would not do that, but if you insist.) See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/296732/35864 – moewe Jun 15 '17 at 06:11
  • \moewe But is there a method to create a biblatex style with this, so I don't need to understand everything in de code? (Because I don't do now...) – Jordy Deweer Jun 15 '17 at 14:00
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    @JordyDeweer You don't have to create a new style in a separate file for that. It is simply enough to have the code in your preamble. (No matter whether you really understand it or not.) I have edited the answer to show exactly what is relevant. You need the \usepackage line marked with % this is important. As well as the block between %% BIN style - START and %% ... BIN style END .... – moewe Jun 15 '17 at 14:02
  • @moewe Thanks. And what does the filecontents environment do? Do I need this code to let the important code work well, or are the contents of the .bib file enough? That about input command, is that just a personal thing, why you don't recommend to use it, or does it have a software or other technical reason? – Jordy Deweer Jun 15 '17 at 14:34
  • @JordyDeweer The filecontents environment is just here to make the example self-contained - it includes the .bib file. You will not need that in a normal document, where you will just have a .bib file. There is no technical thing against \input (don't use \include though! - see here). It's just my personal preference - I don't use \input - but then I have never had so long a modification to biblatex in my preamble. – moewe Jun 15 '17 at 14:42