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Hi,
That was clever!
Now, if I were using bibtex. Is there a way to put the bibliography to be at the same level as the parts?

Thanks!

EDIT: solution? You can make the bibliography appear at the same level of the parts in the TOC by adding.

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc ...

I ma not sure I understand your problem, but full customization of the appearance of a citation can be achieved with aliases.
So you could do

\defcitealias{biden:2009}{Biden, 2009}

and then cite it as

This is the new display of the paper by~\citepalias{biden:2009}

this will render:
This is ...

To modify this behavior you can copy the file abbrvnat.bst to the folder where you have your tex document. Rename the file to your preferred name, I used abbrvnat_custom.bst and replace line number 222 with this code

{ s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}{, f.}{~jj}" format.name$ 't :=.

In the orginal file the ...