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As I am switching to biblatex for some specific purpose, but the default citation style could not fulfill the need.

By natbib:

\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv} % author-year

is used to load special style.

By biblatex:

\RequireBibliographyStyle{elsarticle-harv}

seems not working.

Since I had no clue to find the relevant command to load this .bst file in the extremely long package manual, so how to figure this out?

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  • Perhaps this will answer your questions: What to do to switch to biblatex? – Alan Munn Feb 06 '13 at 01:13
  • There is no information about how to load specific .bst file :( – KOF Feb 06 '13 at 01:19
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    @AlanMunn -- Maybe the question's objective should be rephrased to: "How do I mimic the layout achieved by elsarticle-harv if I use biblatex instead of BibTeX"? – Mico Feb 06 '13 at 01:20
  • @KOF -- Could you please be a bit more specific about the "specific purpose" that's leading you from using natbib/elsarticle-harv/BibTeX to an alternative solution based on bibLaTeX? – Mico Feb 06 '13 at 01:22
  • I wanna put references after each chapters instead of at the end of document. The solutions I found will need biblatex package. Besides, there are so many posts discussing biblatex, so maybe i could make use of the advantage of it. – KOF Feb 06 '13 at 01:31
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    @KOF Your comment about the information not being there is interesting, since it is there, but perhaps not phrased in a way that allowed you to make the right connections. This is more a comment on the answers there than on your understanding of them. The equivalent of a .bst file is a style specified in the \usepackage[style=<a-biblatex-style>]{biblatex} command. There is no one-to-one correspondence between existing natbib styles and biblatex styles, but there are a lot of harvard like styles for biblatex. A lot depends on how exactly you need to use the elsarticle-harv style. – Alan Munn Feb 06 '13 at 01:41
  • @AlanMunn style=elsarticle-harv option does not work. Could you please give the link of those style files for biblatex? – KOF Feb 06 '13 at 01:49
  • Here's a link to the biblatex-contrib folder of CTAN. All of these styles should be part of TeXLive and MikTeX, so you shouldn't need to download them separately if your distribution is complete and up-to-date. If you don't have them, you should use regular methods for adding packages to your distribution (tlmgr for TeXLive or its MikTeX equivalent.) – Alan Munn Feb 06 '13 at 02:00
  • @AlanMunn - From my experience with the bibliography style elsarticle-harv, the only clear "Harvard-like" attribute is its implementation of an author-year citation system -- something first achieved on a stable basis, if memory serves me correctly, by the harvard package, quite some time before the natbib package came around. For journals published by Elsevier, the recommendation is always to use the natbib package. The "harv" in elsarticle-harv may thus be a bit misleading. – Mico Feb 06 '13 at 02:01

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As Audrey so succinctly notes in the comments, (and as Mico and I commented on your question) you simply can't use .bst files with biblatex. So the best solution would be to find existing biblatex style that comes close to the elsarticle-harv style.

Since the elsarticle-harv is a generic author-year style, the first place to start might be one of the standard author-year styles that biblatex provides. If they are not sufficient, perhaps you could try the apa style for biblatex. This produces fairly standard Author-Year citations and bibliography. Here's a simple example with references per chapter added to the table of contents. 

\documentclass{book}
% The next 4 lines are required for the biblatex-apa style
% adding the refsection=chapter option makes allows each chapter to have a 
% references section
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber,refsection=chapter]{biblatex} 
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
% load your bib file (.bib suffix required)
\addbibresource{newmainjournals.bib}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{First Chapter}
% insert some citation commands in your text
% at the end of the chapter, print the bibliography as a section, added to TOC
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc]
% now repeat for the next chapter 
\chapter{Second Chapter}
% some more citation commands
% and the next references section
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc]
\backmatter

\end{document}
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