bibtexemphasis
I would like to create bibliographies that have certain authors highlighted (e.g., bold). There are several solutions along these lines, but they usually assume that it's the same author that's being highlight throughout:
I'm hoping for a BibTeX solution along these lines that lets me indicate, in the .bib file, which authors should be highlighted, e.g.,
author = {J. Doe and J. Smith and J. Quincy}
usera = {1,3}
My goal is to use this for my CV, and to highlight student authors.
Here is a proof of concept (no support for the optional argument, and something similar is needed for \citep and other cite commands), and also it assumes that the .bst style use "et al" for references for more that a single author.
The idea is to create something similar to \ifciteseen in biblatex. Thus we can create a list of references already cited in the document (and we exploit the list facilities of etoolbox). Then, if the reference has not been used before we use \citet*, and we add the key to the list of seen references. Otherwise, we use \citet.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{test1,
author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B and Cuthor, C and Duthor, D},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal},
year = 2013
}
@article{test2,
author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B and Cuthor, C and Duthor, D},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal},
year = 2012
}
\end{filecontents}
\newcommand{\citelist}{}
\newcounter{currentcite}
\newcounter{currentcitetotal}
\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{
\setcounter{currentcitetotal}{0}
\renewcommand{\do}[1]{\addtocounter{currentcitetotal}{1}}
\docsvlist{#1}
\renewcommand{\do}[1]{%
\addtocounter{currentcite}{1}%
\ifinlist{##1}{\citelist}
{\citet{##1}}
{\citet*{##1}\listadd{\citelist}{##1}}%
\ifnumcomp{\value{currentcitetotal}}{>}{\value{currentcite}}
{, }
{}%
}
\docsvlist{#1}
}
\begin{document}
\mycite{test1,test2}
\mycite{test1}
\mycite{test2}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
You are specifying
\bibliographystyle{plain}
which in turn specifies that lists of names should be formatted by this readable bit of code:
FUNCTION {format.names}
{ 's :=
#1 'nameptr :=
s num.names$ 'numnames :=
numnames 'namesleft :=
{ namesleft #0 > }
{ s nameptr "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ 't :=
nameptr #1 >
{ namesleft #1 >
{ ", " * t * }
{ numnames #2 >
{ "," * }
'skip$
if$
t "others" =
{ " et~al." * }
{ " and " * t * }
if$
}
if$
}
't
if$
nameptr #1 + 'nameptr :=
namesleft #1 - 'namesleft :=
}
while$
}
somewhere in the middle of that you will see it adds , or and or et al depending on the number of names left in the list.
You could tinker with that, although you should not change the default file, or more easily find another bibtex style that does what you want. (perhaps use the makebst package to make one). You need to decide what you want to do for lists of length 0,1,2,3 and more than N for some N.
You want a, b not a and b but what do you want for a list of three, the normal choices are either a, b, and c or a, b and c but perhaps you want a, b, c (If you do want that you can just change and in a copy of the above to , I think.
Best Answer
My solution works by hacking the bibliography style, similar to what @Katuyci proposed, but conforming more to your example.
plain.bsthere, but it works with any other style, too.Insert
userato theENTRYfield:Add the following functions to your style file, after
FUNCTION {not}(or afterFUNCTION {or} if using natbib). Themultandstr.to.int` functions are taken from Tame the Beast, with a small bug fix.Now locate
FUNCTION {format.names}, and putbefore that.
format.nameshas to be modified. I indicated all lines that I added. Your function might look a little different when you are not working withplain.bst, but pretty similar.Finally, we provide a default style for highlighting authors, here we use bold. This is to be injected into the
begin.bibfunction:That's it! Let's test it:
Note that authors to be emphasized should be given in increasing order, e.g.
separated by spaces. Otherwise you will get warnings as in the test code.