I have been looking for an answer to my problem for quite a while now and was not able to find one that really meets my requirements.
I am using biblatex with citestyle alphabetic. For most cases this is absolutely fine. But now I would like to cite a study and would like a specific set of letters to appear in the text.
The biblatex source looks as follows:
#Report{Kost2018,
author = {Kost, Christoph and Shammugam, Shivenes},
title = {{Levelized Cost of Electricity Renewable Energy Technologies}},
institution = {Fraunhofer ISE},
year = {2018},
}
Now, with \autocite{Kost2018}, as expected, the citation comes out as [Kos+18].
What I would like instead is something like [ISE18] because the reader will more likely know this institute rather than the author. Also, if I cite several studies of that insistute, it is more clear to the reader.
I would be really greatfull if someone could help me on this.
You can use the biblatex key shorthand:
#Report{Kost2018,
author = {Kost, Christoph and Shammugam, Shivenes},
shorthand = {ISE18},
title = {{Levelized Cost of Electricity Renewable Energy Technologies}},
institution = {Fraunhofer ISE},
year = {2018}
}
Description from the biblatex documentation:
label
A designation to be used by the citation style as a substitute for the regular label if
any data required to generate the regular label is missing. For example, when an
author-year citation style is generating a citation for an entry which is missing the
author or the year, it may fall back to label. See § 2.3.2 for details. Note that, in contrast to shorthand, label is only used as a fallback. See also shorthand.
shorthand
A special designation to be used by the citation style instead of the usual label. If
defined, it overrides the default label. See also label.
Reference: How to specify bibliography alpha key without modifying the .bst file or using BibLaTeX
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I am using the listings package for LaTex to include GAMS-Code in my LaTex-file. The package does not support GAMS as a language. So I have to define the language like descriped in this article.
In GAMS, after declaring a symbol there is place for an explanatory text. I want to make the listings package to recognize this as a comment, so I can set special color options and keywords are not formated as keywords. But I can only define comments by their delimiters and not by their position (starting the second word after certain keywords).
So as an example the GAMS code contains
sets i decision variables
Then "decision variables" is the explanatory text and I want it to have a different color (blue). "variables" is a keyword but it should not be marked as one in my Latex-file because it is inside the explanatory text. Is there any chance of making the listings package recognizing the explanatory text as a comment. What would my LaTex command
\lstdefinelanguage{GAMS}{
morekeywords={sets, variables,...}
morecomment= <This should be the interesting part>
look like?
I'm designing my diploma thesis and would like to make a big question mark to every problem and a exclamation mark to every solution. It should like like this:
Do you know any Latex-Libraries to accomplish that behaviour? If there is no such library I would be more than happy if you could help me getting started writing my own Latex-Command.
Here is one basic approach. No packages are involved.
A particular thing about your layout is the use of the margin, correlated with that line of text. One way about it is to define a simple environment, which uses Latex command for margin notes, \marginpar. Then you can also set up fonts as you please, within this environment. Below I also insert an unrelated margin note, as an example in case you are not familiar with those.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\newenvironment{Q} {\hspace{\stretch{1}} \Huge} {\marginpar{ \Huge{?} } \newline}
\newenvironment{A} {\hspace{\stretch{1}} \Huge} {\marginpar{ \Huge{!} } \newline}
\begin{document}
\section{First section}
Some text ... Margin note entered {\em here} \marginpar{NOTE} ... more text \\
\vspace{0.5in}
\begin{Q} Here is a question \end{Q}
State your question ... \\
\begin{A} This is an answer \end{A}
Go with the answer ... \\
New paragraph, for other text ...
\end{document}
See this page in Latex Wikibooks for a very clear explanation of how to define a new environment. If you end up wanting more control see the package environ.
Margin notes provide you with a few options. If you want to reverse the logic of where they are placed, use \reversemarginpar. You can also set up different text to appear depending on which margin the note goes in by using \marginpar[left text]{right text}. See the Wikibooks article on footnotes and margin notes, which spells out where notes go based on the document type.
Here are some posts for more specialized uses: on notes in both margins, and on notes in narrow margnins. For doing far more with margin notes see package magrinnote, and there are yet other packages, like todonotes. See this post for a visual show off of what it can do.
I've used a basic way to change font size, and no special symbols. A list of these fonts can be found in this post, for example. You can use very particular fonts and/or symbols if you like, which are convenient to set up in the new environment. See, for example, this post, which also has another way of formatting for your Q&A. Also informative may be this post.
Note that you can also use existing environments inside this new one, if you wish. You can also set up a counter, and have an ability to cross-reference these. See this post for an example.
I'm currently using the apalike style for my bibliography, using natbib for author-year, however when I generate the bibliography I lose the labels that normally precede the reference,
i.e. [S. Rostami, 2010] Shahin Rostami (2010) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask etc etc..
I read apalike.bst and it seems this is intended, my quesiton is, how do I get them back? Something I can include in the preamble? Otherwise is there a similar style that shows labels?
Also, I'm doing this all in Lyx.
OK, a real answer!
Advice: don't use homebrew citation styles in scientific articles. If your university recommends a specific style (e.g., APA, Chicago), use the existing matching style. Otherwise, you can get a feel for what is the dominant citation/reflist style by looking at what styles used by the articles you cite.
If you really do want to create such a homebrew cite/reflist style, then the easy option is to copy the .bbl file into your article and edit that: with luck, you can devise a regex that will create all or most of the labels you want. But rerunning Bibtex will not respect the changes you have made. The "right" thing is to clone apalike.bst and change the way it generates the author/date sentence to include the label information as well. BST hacking is a bit of a black art —time-consuming, fiddly, and poorly documented— but the language is not essentially difficult. Look at btxhak, Designing Bibtex styles and Nicolas Markey's tutorial to get started. Alternatively, there are some bst-hackery-avoiding suggestions in this SO Q&A.
I'm using LaTeX and BibTeX for an article, and I want to able to cite the title of an article I reference. What is the command to do this?
I'm using \bibliographystyle{chicago} and it does not appear to be \citeT{}, \citetitle{} or \citeTitle{}
#Norman, and the various commenters, are correct in that it would be difficult to do this with bibtex and other tools. But, there is an alternative. Biblatex does allow this through the command \citetitle. Also, if you really want to, the formatting drivers in biblatex are easily readable and modifiable, but only if you feel the need. Unfortunately, it is not part of any distribution, yet, so it has to be downloaded and installed.
Just type in the title. Even natbib, the most powerful widespread BibTeX package, is not powerful enough to do what you want out of the box. Trying to get BibTeX to extract the title for you, by means of a LateX command, is possible, but it would require that you
Design a new format for bibliography items that is incompatible with existing formats.
Write your own custom .bst file, using the very strange postfix language that is used only by BibTeX, to be compatible with your new format.
Write a new LaTeX command to pull the title information out of the new format.
Speaking as someone who has written several custom bst files as well as a replacement for BibTeX, it's just not worth fooling with. After all, if you are citing the paper, you probably know the title anyway.
EDIT: If you have to do this with multiple papers, I would try to cheat. Extend the bst file so that it writes into the bbl file a command that writes into the aux file the title associated with each bibkey. You can model the bbl command on \label and the actual title-citing command on \ref.
This is how I solve the title issue for cited papers:
In the preamble
include Natbib:
\usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}
If you want to cite a TITLE instead of an author in the text you define the title like this in the preamble:
\defcitealias{Weiser1996designingcalm}{Designing Calm Technology}
Note:
You need to have a bibtex item (for the title ''Designing Calm Technology'') with the key {Weiser1996designingcalm}.
In the paper where you want to write the cited paper's title
\citetalias{Weiser1996designingcalm}
this results in => Designing Calm Technology (i.e. the text you specified with the \defcitealias command above)
or
\citepalias{Weiser1996designingcalm}
that results in => (Designing Calm Technology) (i.e. title with parenthesis)
This question is old and maybe \citefield was not around back in the days, but now it works like charm for this kind of problems:
\documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
#article{example,
title = {NAME OF PAPER},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\citefield{example}{title}
\end{document}
Got it from this question.
Thanks to Anders for the hint. \defcitealias seems to be the way to go.
Bibtex produces a .bbl file which contains the bibliography entries. something like that
\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Andrienko
{\itshape{et~al.}}}{2003}]{Andrienko2003}
Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., and Voss, H., 2003. {GIS for Everyone: The
CommonGIS Project and Beyond}. {\itshape {In}}: {\itshape {Maps and the
Internet}}., 131--146 Elsevier.
I use Eclipse, which is free and that you may already have to apply regular expressions in this file when needed. '\R' acts as platform independent line delimiter. Here is an example of multi-line search:
search:
\\bibitem.*(\R.*)?\R?\{([^{]*)\}\R^[^\\].*\d\d\d\d\.\s([^\.]*\R?[^\.]*)\R?.*\R?.*
and replace:
\\defcitealias{$2}{$3}
(For myself I use \\bibitem.*(\R.*)?\R?\{([^{]*)\}$\R^([^\\].*[^\}]$\R.*$\R.*) to get all the item text)
Et produces a series of \defcitealias that can be copypasted elsewhere:
\defcitealias{Andrienko2003}{{GIS for Everyone: The
CommonGIS Project and Beyond}}
Finally, this can be used to build a custom command such as:
\newcommand{\MyCite}[1]{\citet*{#1}. \citetalias{#1}.}
Used as \MyCite{Andrienko2003} and producing: Andrienko et al. (2003). GIS for Everyone: The CommonGIS Project and Beyond.
My preferred bibtex style file cites via author's initials. However, there are various texts which should be cited differently (for example, Elements Geometrie Algebrique should always be cited as [EGA]). I know how to modify this in the .bbl file that bibtex outputs, but then I have to do this for every file. Is there a way to do this from my .bib file?
My preferred bibtex style file cites via author's initials. However, there are various texts which should be cited differently...
I hope I don't get flamed for this, but your preferred bibtex style file does not serve your readers very well. Part of my job is to review papers, and a jumble of initials like [GKS] is not nearly as helpful as a full author-date citation like [Guibas, Knuth, and Sharir 1990]. For a knowledgeable reader, the authors and date often make it unneccessary to refer to the bibliography. For a naïve reader, a group of names is much easier to remember then a group of letters, especially when one or more of the names may be familiar. These issues are discussed in detail by, e.g., the Chicago Manual of Style, which explains the proper way to cite from the professional literature.
I go on at such length because I believe you are solving the wrong problem. Although I believe your readers will quickly recognize [EGA], I would hope they would also recognize (Grothendieck 1960) or (Grothendieck and Dieudonné 1967).
Can I [modify the way a work is cited] by changing my .bib file?
Not if you want to use any of the standard BibTeX styles. BibTeX uses one of the world's worst programming languages, and the standard programs are very firm about using the author or editor of a work for form the citation key. If you really want to do this, I recommend the following procedure:
Clone and modify something like the plainnat.bst file. This will enable you to create a new "bibliography style."
Create a new type of BibTeX entry which will enable you to specify the citation key using a special field (key is a popular choice).
Alter the calc.label function to do the right thing with your new type of entry. If you're lucky, changing calc.label will be enough to be sure the thing is sorted properly.
Use your nonstandard type in your .bib file and use your nonstandard \bibliographystyle{...} in all your LaTeX documents.
The gods really don't want you to do this—and neither do your coauthors...
You can modify the .bst program so that it looks for an additional field, say shown-key, and if it is set uses that rather than the usual.
If you are willing to use a different bib style there is a way pointed out by this answer. Using the abstract style, the bibtex key is used as the cite key. Then, you edit each key in the bib file anyway you want it.
A straightforward disadvantage of this approach is that you will have to edit every item in your bib file, however I believe that it is a fair price to pay for such flexibility.
I've seen other possible solutions involving natbib or biblatex, but I wanted to avoid those packages as I sometimes get compilation problems when using them.