[Tex/LaTex] Bibliographystyle, how to edit apalike style

bibtex

I use

\bibliographystyle{apalike}

It is perfect to me, except for one (not so little) detail, the way authors names are displayed in the bibliography (example) :

Dupond, P., Beh, M., …

LastName1, FirstName1, LastName2, FirstName2, …

you will have to admit, this is completly awful to read, the point/comma thing or the use of the same separator (comma) for firstname-lastname and different authors is confusing and wrong, I would like to obtain something like that :

P. Dupond, M. Beh, …

FirstName1 LastName1, FirstName2 LastName2, …

but I don't want to change the way apalike manage everything else (especialy citation display \cite), is there any way I can achieve this? Or any other bibliographystyle that might suits my needs?

Edit 1 :
MWE under Bernard suggestion, everything worked previously, now the citation is just bold (no link) and no bibliography appears anywhere

\documentclass[
twoside,
a4paper,
11pt,
chapterprefix=true]{scrbook}

\usepackage[UTF8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}

\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks, allcolors=blue]{hyperref}

\addbibresource{./bib/database.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{NameDate}

\renewcommand{\bibname}{Références} \markboth{Références}{Références}
\printbibliography \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Références}

\end{document}

bib file :

% This file was created with JabRef 2.9.2.
% Encoding: Cp1252

@ARTICLE{NameDate,
  author = {LName1, FName1 and LastName2, FirstName2 and LastName3, FirstName3},
  title = {title},
  journal = {journal},
  year = {2013},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {23--29},
  number = {0},
  __markedentry = {[myname:6]},
  booktitle = {booktitle},
  issn = {2212-8271},
  keywords = {keywaords},
  owner = {my name},
  timestamp = {2014.03.05},
  url = {an url}
}

Editor warning : Citation 'NameDate' undefiened

Best Answer

Here is a solution for the APA style. It uses the xpatch package to modify the apauthor name format. The package has a series of commands to patch most, if not all, biblatex commands.

    \documentclass[twoside,a4paper,11pt,chapterprefix=true]{scrbook}

    \usepackage[UTF8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{lmodern}
    \usepackage[british]{babel}

    \usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
    \usepackage[ocgcolorlinks, allcolors=blue]{hyperref}
    \DeclareLanguageMapping{british}{british-apa}
    \usepackage{xpatch}
    \xpatchnameformat{apaauthor}{%
            {\mkbibbrackets{\usebibmacro{name:apa:last-first}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}?}}
            {\usebibmacro{name:apa:last-first}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}}}%
    {%
            {\mkbibbrackets{\usebibmacro{name:apa:first-last}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}?}}
            {\usebibmacro{name:apa:first-last}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#7}}}%
    {}{}%

    \bibliography{bibli.bib}

    \begin{document}

    \nocite{*}
    \printbibliography

    \end{document}

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Other features may be modified in the same way. The method is always the same: identify the macros that are, as a last resort, responsible for the formatting you want to change and patch it. This supposes you look deep into the .bbx (for bibliography formatting) or .cbx (for citations formatting) files.

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Here's a patch that you can apply to your apalike.bst style:

--- apalike.bst 2013-09-05 02:38:53.000000000 +0300
+++ napalike.bst        2013-09-05 02:59:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 { year empty$
     { "empty year in " cite$ * warning$ }
     { write$
-      " (" year * extra.label * ")" *
+      " " year * extra.label *
       mid.sentence 'output.state :=
     }
   if$
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
 FUNCTION {format.title}
 { title empty$
     { "" }
-    { title "t" change.case$ }
+    { "``" title * "''" * }
   if$
 }

@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
 }

 FUNCTION {format.btitle}
-{ title emphasize
+{ title
 }

 FUNCTION {tie.or.space.connect}
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
     { "volume" volume tie.or.space.connect
       series empty$
         'skip$
-        { " of " * series emphasize * }
+        { " of " * series * }
       if$
       "volume and number" number either.or.check
     }
@@ -430,8 +430,8 @@
 { booktitle empty$
     { "" }
     { editor empty$
-        { "In " booktitle emphasize * }
-        { "In " format.editors * ", " * booktitle emphasize * }
+        { "In " booktitle * }
+        { "In " format.editors * ", " * booktitle * }
       if$
     }
   if$
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
   format.title "title" output.check
   new.block
   crossref missing$
-    { journal emphasize "journal" output.check
+    { journal "journal" output.check
       format.vol.num.pages output
     }
     { format.article.crossref output.nonnull }

I doubt that this is all you need, but the differences in the two files will give you the idea how to fix the rest.

The rest is information about how to apply this patch. I'll make it brief.

A patch is a text file that shows what changes you need to make to one version of a file (the original) in order to produce a second version (the patched one). What you see above was generated by the diff utility, which compares two files and reports the differences.

If you are using a Linux machine, or have a decent set of utilities on your Windows machine, you can directly apply the patch by:

Copying the original apalike.bst (you have to find it first) to the directory where your LaTeX source files are:
```
cp /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/apalike.bst apalike.bst
```
Creating a file apalike.patch and adding the patch above.
Applying the patch:
```
patch < apalike.patch
```
This is all, but I'd suggest to rename the result, e.g. to napalike.bst, and use that in your LaTeX source; in this way, you'll remember that you have changed it.

If on the other hand you have no access to a working patch utility, all you need to do is to apply these changes by hand (they are not too many). Look for - and + at the beginning of lines in the patch. This is what you need to change. The numbers after the @@ denote the lines where this change has to be applied.

For example, the first change in the patch above says that, somewhere around line 121, there is a line saying " (" year * extra.label * ")" * (this was the minus sign), which you need to replace by " " year * extra.label * (this was the plus sign).

[Tex/LaTex] Make/Create AGU’s style bibliographystyle

the original poster actually solved the problem him/herself, with some help, but we try not to leave questions unanswered. so here goes.

the appearance of \citep in the original question suggested that the author-year style was wanted. although some other bib styles support this, the most likely is natbib. natbib has "additional" requirements for its label format, and for those, it's best to follow a good example; the manual has very good guidance on this, so the best approach for this is to go to the manual.

the request was for the references to be listed in alphabetical order. several approaches were suggested and tried, the one that was finally successful being apsr.bst, launched by bibliographystyle{apsr}. (the two others were (1) unsrtnat, which requires the .bib file to be maintained in the intended final order, and (2) plainnat, which does the desired sort, but left the names in a form other than what was wanted; the form of the names, however, was due to an input misunderstanding -- see below.)

it was requested that names be listed last name first in the bibliography, but they were showing up instead beginning with the first initial. this could actually have been predicted from the input shown in the question:

 author = {Smith J. and Robert C. and Harrison F},

all bibtex processors expect the last and first names to be separated by a comma in the .bib file, so fixing this was easy, if laborious -- insert commas in the names:

 author = {Smith, J. and Robert, C. and Harrison, F},

thanks to the original poster for reporting what actually worked, so this might help someone else.

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