I'm using natbib package and bibliography style jtbnew which I would like to modify in this way. Instead of having author's name and (year). I would prefer author's name and (year):
For example instead of Browder, A. (1996). Mathematical Analysis I would like to get
Browder, A. (1996): Mathematical Analysis
[Tex/LaTex] How to modify bibliography style
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No, you always have to create a new .bst file. BibTeX reads the .bst file when doing formatting, but has no direct interaction with the .tex file (it scans the .aux file for citation and style names, but that is all). You could use the filecontents environment to embed a .bst file inside a .tex file, but this is probably not that useful as .bst files tend to be large (1000+ lines is typical). Note that you don't have to generate a .bst file from scratch: making a renamed copy and altering the required parts is doable (ask about your modification in a separate question if needed).
One of the reasons for the development of biblatex is precisely because it leaves formatting to the .tex file. As such, biblatex styles can be adjusted in the LaTeX document. On the other hand, biblatex uses a completely separate set of standard styles to traditional BibTeX, so a transition may not be trivial, depending on your requirements.
The number format in the bibliography, set by natbib can be changed via \bibnumfmt:
\renewcommand*{\bibnumfmt}[1]{#1.}
Full example:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{}{,}
\renewcommand*{\bibnumfmt}[1]{#1.}
\begin{document}
\noindent Citation\cite{48341}
\bibliographystyle{ama}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can get BibTeX to insert a colon instead of a period after
(yyyy)by modifying the functiondate.blockin the filejtbnew.bst. (Save the existing file to a new file, and modify only the new file.) This function is defined as follows injtbnew.bst:The function
new.block, defined elsewhere in the filejtbnew.bst, essentially inserts a period ("full stop")and a space. For your purposes, the content of thedate.blockfunction needs to be modified, say as follows:(I'll leave it to your imagination to guess that the
add.blankfunction does...) Save the modified.bstfile and start using it instead ofjtbnew.bst.By the way, if you find that you need to make more than just one or two adjustments to an existing bibliography style file in order to get the style you need, you may find it advantageous to run the makebst.tex utility; type "latex makebst" from a command window and follow the prompts. Running this utility will create an entirely new style file that incorporates all of your formatting requirements from the get-go, without further need to decipher and make sense of the rather dense internals of BibTeX's infix programming language.