I've been working on a chapter for an Elsevier book elsarticle.cls class file and the elsarticle-num-names reference file.
This Harvard style shows the referenced papers in the following format, for example:
- D. A. Natale, C. N. Arighi, W. C. Barker, J. Blake, T.-C. Chang, Z. Hu, H. Liu, B. Smith, C. H. Wu, Framework for a protein ontology, BMC
Bioinformatics 8 (9), 2007 S1.
I would like to switch the year field to the beginning of the reference, this way:
- D. A. Natale, C. N. Arighi, W. C. Barker, J. Blake, T.-C. Chang, Z. Hu, H. Liu, B. Smith, C. H. Wu, 2007. Framework for a protein
ontology, BMC Bioinformatics 8 (9) S1.
(bolding added for emphasis)
How can I do it?
Thanks
EDIT: It's hard to create a minimal working example because I'm using 4 files to create the pdf.
Here's the bibliography declaration at the start of the main tex file, and at the end of it:
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num-names}
\biboptions{authoryear}
...
\bibliography{pro_chapter_bib_file}
And here's the entry in the bib file:
@article{natale2007framework,
title = "Framework for a protein ontology",
author = "Natale, Darren A. and Arighi, Cecilia N. and
Barker, Winona C. and Blake, Judith and
Chang, Ti-Cheng and Hu, Zhangzhi and Liu,
Hongfang and Smith, Barry and Wu, Cathy H.",
journal = "BMC Bioinformatics",
volume = "8",
number = "9",
pages = "S1",
year = "2007",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
}
Best Answer
If I understand your bibliography formatting requirements correctl6, the
elsarticle-harv
bibliography style would be a good starting point. You'll need to make just three modifications. I suggest you proceed as follows.Locate the file
elsarticle-harv.bst
in your TeX distribution. Make a copy of this file and call the copy, say,elsarticle-harv-mod.bst
. (Do not modify an original file of the TeX distribution directly.)Open the file
elsarticle-harv-mod.bst
in a text editor; the editor you use for your tex files will do fine.In the bst file, locate the function
format.names
. (It starts on line 377 in my copy of the file. In this function, locate the following line:Change it to
(After all, you've indicated that the abbreviated given names should be placed ahead of the surnames.)
Next, locate the function
format.date
; in all likelihood, it'll start on l. 617. In this function, locate the following line (the penultimate line of the function):Change it to
(This change will encase the year field in round parentheses.)
Finally, locate the function
format.journal.pages
, which should start on line 783. In this function, locate the lineDelete the comma, i.e., change the line to
Save the file
elsarticle-harv-mod.bst
either in the directory where your main tex file is located or in a directory that's searched by your TeX distribution. If you choose the second option, you will likely need to update the filename database of your TeX distribution suitably.In your main tex file, change the instruction
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}
to\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv-mod}
, and do a full recompile cycle: LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more.Happy BibTeXing!
A full MWE: