[Tex/LaTex] How to modify the abbrvnat bibliography style

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I want make my bibliography in which there is comma between author and article name instead of full stop. And also i want to write name of article in inverted commas (as x). Is there any way of writing such type of bibliography

Example:

 G. Agarwal & S. Sindh,"A comparison between public key authority and certification authority for distribution of public key". International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies.1(5):332--336,2010.

My bibliography code:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
 \begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
  @article{link:cac,
 title   = {A comparison between public key authority and certification authority for distribution of public key},
 author  = {Agarwal, Gaurav and Singh, Saurabh},
 journal = {International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies},
 volume  = {1},
  number  = {5},
  pages   = {332--336},
  year    = {2010}
 }
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
 \usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
  \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}

 \begin{document}
        \noindent
        \citet{link:cac}, \cite{link:cac}
        \bibliography{mybib}
        \end{document}

Best Answer

As with most traditional BiBTeX formatting issues, this requires hacking the .bst file itself, but it's not that hard to do. An alternative is to use biblatex.

First locate the original abbrvnat.bst file. You can find the exact path for your system by using kpsewhich abbrvnat.bst from the command line. On a current TeXLive system it is in:

/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/natbib/abbrvnat.bst

Make a copy of this file, and call it e.g. abbrvnat-quotes.bst. Put this in your local texmf folder: ...texmf/bibtex/bst/ or simply place it in the same folder as your source document if you only need this style for that document.

Now you need to make the following changes to the file:

Add a new function enquote to the file. This should go with the other functions. A simple way is to find the emphasize function and copy it and then make it look like this:

FUNCTION {enquote}
 { duplicate$ empty$
     { pop$ "" }
     { "``" swap$ * "''" * }
   if$
 }

For a more flexible version of the enquote function, you can use the csquotes package. See How to modify a bibliography style to surround titles in quotes in a bibliography? for details on how to do this.

Find the article function (line 699) and make the following modifications: Change the following line:

format.title "title" output.check

to:

format.title enquote "title" output.check

To add a comma after the author name requires more extensive changes, since you need to change the format for every publication type. But the general method is the same. In each publication type you will find the following lines:

author format.key output
new.block

You need to change all of these pairs of lines to:

author format.key output

For more complex items, the simple line author format.key output may not be present. In that case you need to look for the new.block line that is between the author output code (whatever that is) and the title code. For the book type, for example you will find:

author empty$
    { format.editors "author and editor" output.check
      editor format.key output
    }
    { format.authors output.nonnull
      crossref missing$
        { "author and editor" editor either.or.check }
        'skip$
      if$
    }
  if$
  new.block
  format.btitle "title" output.check

In this case you need to remove the new.block line.

Save the file and use \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat-quotes} in your source document.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
 \begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
  @article{link:cac,
 title   = {A comparison between public key authority and certification authority for distribution of public key},
 author  = {Agarwal, Gaurav and Singh, Saurabh},
 journal = {International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies},
 volume  = {1},
  number  = {5},
  pages   = {332--336},
  year    = {2010}
 }
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat-quotes}

\begin{document}
\noindent
\citet{link:cac}, \cite{link:cac}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}

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You can get BibTeX to insert a colon instead of a period after (yyyy) by modifying the function date.block in the file jtbnew.bst. (Save the existing file to a new file, and modify only the new file.) This function is defined as follows in jtbnew.bst:

FUNCTION {date.block}
{
  new.block
}

The function new.block, defined elsewhere in the file jtbnew.bst, essentially inserts a period ("full stop")and a space. For your purposes, the content of the date.block function needs to be modified, say as follows:

FUNCTION {date.block}
{
  ":" *
  add.blank
}

(I'll leave it to your imagination to guess that the add.blank function does...) Save the modified .bst file and start using it instead of jtbnew.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.

[Tex/LaTex] How to modify an existing bibliography style

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.

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