Text Formatting ⇒ Bibliography name bold

[tsippel]

Hi-
I'm writing my academic cv, and need to highlight my name within my list of publications.

Say I have a bibtex bibliography called My_Bibliography which includes my peer reviewed work, and my name is Bob Smith.

\usepackackage(natbib) %bibliography package in preamble

\nocite{Jones_etal_2010} %Show first bibliographic reference
\nocite{Smith_etal_2009} %Show second bibliographic reference
\bibliographystyle{PLoS-Biology} %I want to use the style from PLoS-Biology
\bibliography{My_Bibliography} %The name of my bibliography is My_Bibliography

When this bibliography shows with my name "Smith B" amongst my co-authors, I want my name to be in bold.

Jones A, Smith B, Walker C 2010. Another paper I wrote. PLoS Biology 1(1): 1-10.

Smith B, Walker C, Jones A. 2009. A paper I wrote. Nature 1(1): 1-10.

I want to use the \nocite{} command to make use of my bibtex bibliography and not have to type out my work individually just so I can make my name bold.

[kaiserkarl13]

I can think of two solutions that might work:

(1) Put two "@string" entries at the top of your bibliography file like so:

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@string{ myname = "{Smith, B[restofname]" }
string{ myname = "{\textbf{Smith}}, {\textbf{B}}" }

then change all occurrences of your name to use the new string macro. For example,

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@article{Jones2010,
  author = "Jones, A and " # myname # " and Walker, C",
  year = 2010,
  note = "Another paper I wrote",
  journal = "PLoS Biology",
  volume = 1,
  number = 1,
  pages = "1--10"
}

When making your CV, change the strings to "@string" for the boldface one and just "string" for the other (anything not starting in '@' is a comment in BibTeX).

This may also work, depending on your bibliography style: edit your bibliography style file to include something like

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\providecommand{\myname}{Jones, B.}

in the .bbl file (during the definition of \begin{thebibliography} should work) and then put a line like

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\newcommand{\myname}{\textbf{Jones, B.}}

before your bibliography environment. If you leave out the \newcommand, it will default to non-bold, but if you put the command in there it will grab the boldface version. Note that you'd have to include a similar command if you ever needed your name written in a style other than "Jones, B." (using a different bibliography style). Then change all occurrences of your name to "{\myname}" in the .bib file; for example,

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@article{Jones2010,
  author = "Jones, A and {\myname} and Walker, C",
  year = 2010,
  note = "Another paper I wrote",
  journal = "PLoS Biology",
  volume = 1,
  number = 1,
  pages = "1--10"
}

Neither of these is foolproof---for example, I think the comma will never be boldfaced using the first method, and some BST files will be stupid and put a comma after your name in the second instance. Both of these are easily rectified by edits to the .bib file, but the whole point of doing this is to avoid such edits.