Despite the never-ending and dedicated efforts to convert the local geoscientific community to publish using LaTeX, thereare still a large sum of journals only accepting Microsoft Word-written papers. Though that may not be the most clever way of doing it, I understand that some people just end up with a computing device in their hands „by accient“, and that they want to get stuff done with minor learning efforts (by spending a large amount of time each repetion on the same task manually) – as the case with writing.
Well, when using Word for writing scientific articles, one does encounter a problem: many journals give out a Word template. Unfortunately, most times there is a written explanation on how to format the biliography, but the journals don’t align with standard bibliography styles (like IEEE, ACM, APA or equivalent) but instead want a fancy formatting and don’t provide a Word bibliography stylesheet.
To overcome the problem, I took BibWord as a basis to generate a template for „The Photogrammetric Journal“. BibWord itself provides first and foremost an extended list of up-to-date stylesheets for standard styles, but it also provides a template to-be-extended for other styles. This barebone template and a guide on how to use it is provided by the website. If you download the original bibword library, you can take a style closest to the one you want to achieve. This can be useful as some styles already provide you with the main article source items, like „Book“, „BookSection“, „JournalArticle“ etc.
The major things to adapt are the „citation“ layer, which accounts for the inline reference representation in the text, and the „bibliography“ section, which describes the look of the reference bibliography at the end of the page.
The style achieved so far can be found here. The BibWord webpage tells you where to copy the stylesheets for a specific version of Windows and Word. What I haven’t figured out so far is how to fix in the stylesheet visual attributes like small caps, font type, size and item margin- which can be adapted rather easily in Word itself. Still, if you know how-to, please indicate that in the comments.