McBride is a BibTeX bibliography style that follows the Chicago Manual of Style’s “Documentation Two” specifications. McBride is named after Thomas McBride, a Chicago bicycle messenger murdered by Carnell Fitzpatrick. The latest version is dated 2007-10-18; this version makes years lowercase, so that you can set year = "In press" in your BibTeX database.

I made McBride because I was unsatisfied with chicago.bst. See below for a comparison.

What you need to use McBride:

• mcbride.bst, the style file itself
• Patrick W. Daly’s natbib package (download natbib.dtx and natbib.ins, then run LaTeX on the latter to install)
  (Note that natbib may already be installed on your system. If so, there should be a file called natbib.sty.)
• natbib.cfg, to configure natbib punctuation and indentation when used with mcbride.bst (if you have an existing natbib.cfg, then append this one to it)

How you can use McBride:

• Say \usepackage[longnamesfirst]{natbib} at the beginning of your LaTeX document.
• Say \bibliographystyle{mcbride} at the end of your LaTeX document.
• Cite works as noun phrases by saying \citet{...}.
• Cite works parenthetically by saying \citep{...}.
• For more information, read the natbib documentation, which you can produce by running LaTeX on the natbib.dtx file you downloaded above.

How I produced McBride:

• I ran Patrick W. Daly’s custom-bib package, which produced my starting point for mcbride.bst, along with mcbride.dbj and makebst.log.
• I then tweaked mcbride.bst and wrote natbib.cfg.

Why McBride is better than chicago.bst:

• The McBride bibliography style is based on Patrick W. Daly’s excellent natbib package, not just compatible with some of its features.
• Author names are not shortened to initials. (CMS 16.22)
• All titles are uncapitalized, except periodical titles. (CMS 16.23, 16.60)
• Thesis and dissertation titles are neither capitalized nor italicized. (CMS 16.131)
• Names with von-parts are sorted without. The von-part that needs to be sorted with is not the true von-part. (CMS 16.26, CMS 17.106)
• Three-em dashes are used in place of repeated author names. (CMS 16.28–30)
• The conjunction “and” in a reference list entry is always preceded by a comma, even when there are only two authors. (CMS 16.36)
• Papers in proceedings and chapters in collections are cited as “In Proceedings of the Big Important Conference, ed. Alice B. Copy and David Editor, 12–34” rather than “In A. B. Copy and D. Editor (Eds.), Proceedings of the Big Important Conference, pp. 12–34”. (CMS 16.22, 16.47, 16.75–76)
• There is no superfluous stretching of the space that follows the colon in “Address: Publisher”.
• Line breaks are allowed (but not encouraged) after the colon in “1(2):34–56”. (This would appear to contradict the answer to exercise 12.4 in the TeXbook, but a line break after the en-dash would be truly undesirable there as well as here.)

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A BibTeX tip, not really specific to McBride: To specify an edited collection (that is not a proceedings volume), say

@Book{thomason-formal,
  author    = "Richard Montague",
  editor    = "Richmond Thomason",
  title     = "Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of {R}ichard {M}ontague\textup{, ed.\ {R}ichmond {T}homason}",
  booktitle = "Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of {R}ichard {M}ontague",
  address   = "New Haven",
  publisher = "Yale University Press",
  year      = 1974
}

(note how the title and booktitle differ above). You can then specify parts (chapters) of the collection with

@InCollection{montague-proper,
  author    = "Richard Montague",
  title     = "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary {E}nglish",
  pages     = "247--270",
  crossref  = "thomason-formal"
}

This way, your bibliography will come out right regardless of whether BibTeX decides to merge multiple crossrefs or not: If BibTeX merges multiple crossrefs, then the editor will be typeset as part of the title of the Book. If BibTeX does not merge multiple crossrefs, then the editor will be typeset as the editor of the InCollection.