[Tex/LaTex] Help with editing .bst file to output article titles in the bibliography

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I am using this .bst file in my LaTeX document:
http://ads.harvard.edu/pubs/bibtex/astronat/apj/apj.bst

Everything is working, except that I would like the outputs in the reference section to contain article titles, which they currently do not.

The .bst file allows for each entry to have a title, and all of the ones in my citation file do, but it just doesn't get output in the bibliography.

Is there some modification I can make to the .bst file to get the titles to output to the bibliography?

Thank you for your help.

Best Answer

You will need to edit the article function in apj.bst and provide an instruction to print the contents of the entry's title field. I suggest you do so as follows:

Make a copy of the file apj.bst; call the copy, say, myapj.bst.
Open the file myapj.bst in a text editor and search for the function called article. I believe it starts right after the line that says %%%%%%% End of functions from astrobib.
In the function article, locate the lines
```
  date.block
  crossref missing$
```
Insert the line
```
  format.title "title" output.check
```
between these two lines.
Save the file myapj.bst, either in the directory where your main .tex file is located or in a directory that's searched by BibTeX. If you choose the latter method, you should also update the TeX distribution's filename database.
Start using the new bibliography style with the instruction \bibliographystyle{myapj}. When switching from one bibliography style to another, it's important to run latex, bibtex, and latex twice more so that all changes are fully propagated.

If you're interested in learning more about the BibTeX infix syntax, I heartily recommend you read the document Tame the BeaST -- The B to X of BibTeX by Nicolas Markey.

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FUNCTION {format.title}
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      "\enquote{" swap$ *
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  if$
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However, you have to keep in mind that it will not change the text enclose in {} in the .bib file.

The instruction in a .bst file are written in reverse polish notation. The instruction change.case$ takes two arguments: the first is the text (on the current stack) and the second is either "u" to change to uppercase, "t" to change to lowercase apart the first character and character in {}, and "l" to change to lowercases.

Thus the instruction

title "t" change.case$

means: put title on the stack, then "t" change.case$ changes the case of the text on the stack and puts the result on the stack.

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I suggest you to revise your .bst file. For instance, change lines 1574--1575 into

  write$ newline$
  "\expandafter\ifx\csname bbluline\endcsname\relax\let\bbluline\underline\fi"

and in your TeX file write

\usepackage{ulem}
\def\bbluline#1{\uline#1}

Also the definition of \enquote should be changed: lines 1572-1573 should be

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  "\newcommand{\enquote}[1]{~`#1'\ }"

Moreover, line 197 must be changed as

    { "\bbluline{" swap$ * "}" * }

(that is, changing \uline into \bbluline).

Of course, line 527 should become

526 FUNCTION {format.title}
527 { title emphasize
528    "title" bibinfo.check

that is, removing also add.blank.

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