[Tex/LaTex] making citations bold latex

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Simple problem I am having I apologise for the simplicity but my google skills seem to be lacking and I cannot find an answer speedily.I am using MiKTeX 2.9 and have a successful bibliography without issue and make citations using:

\cite{test}

however my citations are appearing as:

citation

I was hoping to make the citations in the text bold. Also in the printed bibliography at the end of the document the full author list is being condensed as follows:
cite2

I was hoping to display the full Author list and reverse the et al. if possible. Any help would be much appreciated and I apologise for the simplicity of the problems.

Edit: heres my example tex and bib files/close representation:

%Loading in the packages
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper, width=150mm, top=25mm, bottom=25mm ,bindingoffset=6mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{citations.bib}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{superintro}

\input{chapters/superintro}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

bibliography .bib

@report{RFC3550,
    author = {H. Schulzrinne and S. Casgner and R. Frederick and V. Jacobson},
    title = {RFC 3550, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications},
    url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3550},
    year = {2003},
}

@report{RFC2326,
    author = {H. Schulzrinne and A. Rao and R. Lanphier},
    title = {RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol},
    url = {https://rools.ietf.org/html/rfc2326},
    year = {1998},
}

within the superintro .tex file I am simply doing things such as cite{rfc2326}

Best Answer

You can easily make the labels bold using

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelalpha}{\mkbibbold{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{extraalpha}{\mkbibbold{\mknumalph{#1}}}

If you want to un-bold them for the bibliography, you want

\AtBeginBibliography{
  \DeclareFieldFormat{labelalpha}{#1}
  \DeclareFieldFormat{extraalpha}{\mknumalph{#1}}}

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareFieldFormat{labelalpha}{\mkbibbold{#1}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{extraalpha}{\mkbibbold{\mknumalph{#1}}}

\AtBeginBibliography{
  \DeclareFieldFormat{labelalpha}{#1}
  \DeclareFieldFormat{extraalpha}{\mknumalph{#1}}}

\begin{document}
Lorem \cite[43]{geer} ipsum.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Bibliography only printing the authors issue

You get something like

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2015)
The top-level auxiliary file: tubby.aux
The style file: biblatex.bst
Database file #1: tubby-blx.bib
Database file #2: tubby.bib
I was expecting a `,' or a `}'---line 3 of file tubby.bib
 :     
 :     title = {RFC 3550, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications}
(Error may have been on previous line)
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
I was expecting a `,' or a `}'---line 10 of file tubby.bib
 :     
 :     title = {RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol}
(Error may have been on previous line)
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Biblatex version: 3.0
(There were 2 error messages)

when running BibTeX on the file (I renamed it to tubby.bib for not clobbering my files).

Fields in an entry must be terminated by a comma which is optional only after the last field (but I recommend adding it also there).

You also have the author fields wrong: authors should be separated by and, not by a comma. The year field should contain only the year.

In the following example I use filecontents*, but just to make the example self-contained.

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@report{RFC3550,
    author = {H. Schulzrinne and S. Casgner and R. Frederick and V. Jacobson},
    title = {RFC 3550, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications},
    url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3550},
    year = {2003},
}

@report{RFC2326,
    author = {H. Schulzrinne and A. Rao and R. Lanphier},
    title = {RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol},
    url = {https://rools.ietf.org/html/rfc2326},
    year = {1998},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper, width=150mm, top=25mm, bottom=25mm ,bindingoffset=6mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{RFC3550} and \cite{RFC2326}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] bibliographystyle{plainnat} – citations and multicitations problem

As you've confirmed in a comment, implementing @egreg's suggestion and getting rid of the extra pair of curly braces around the author fields (and around the editor fields too, while you're at it) lets LaTeX and BibTeX generate the desired citation call-out format.

To address the second issue -- listing the authors' full names as "Surname, FirstName" rather than as "FirstName Surname" -- it's necessary to modify the bibliography style file slightly. Fortunately, the required modification is straightforward.

Start by finding the file plainnat.bst on your system. (If you have TeXLive or MikTeX, typing "kpsewhich plainnat.bst" at a command prompt should tell you where the file is located.) Make a copy of this file, and name the copy (say) revplainnat.bst.
Open revplainnat.bst in a text editor, and find the function format.names. (It starts on line 216 in my copy of the file.)
A few lines down from the start of the function, locate the instruction
```
    { s nameptr "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ 't :=
```
Change this string to
```
    { s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, ff}" format.name$ 't :=
```
You can probably guess what moving ff from the start to the end of the nameptr string does.
Save the file revplainnat.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 second method, be sure to update the filename database of your TeX distribution.
Start using the new bibliography style by replacing \bibliographystyle{plainnat} with \bibliographystyle{revplainnat} and re-running LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all changes.

Happy BibTeXing!

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{newtest.bib}
@misc{pub1,
  Author = {Silva, Peter}, 
  Year   = {2009},
}
@misc{pub2,
  Author = {Cash, John and Lucas, George and Noah, Steve }, 
  Year   = {2012},
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{revplainnat}

\begin{document}
\cite{pub1}

\cite{pub2}

\bibliography{newtest}
\end{document}

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