BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ How to change the content of a citation in the text

[alex170872]

Hi,

I would like to change the content of a citation in the normal text. Normally a reference is cited lie the following:

blah as seen in [13], ...

or like this:

blah as been found in (Doe, 2006), ....

I would like to adjust this 'text' what is shown as a citation. Here are my specific questions:

= Where in the bst file is the actual cited text defined (i.e., a number, author and date, ...)
= Can this be changed to just show a simple unique entry of a bibtext description?

If someone could give an example how this should work, that would be great.

Thanks
Alex

[frabjous]

bst editing is not for the feint of heart; if you really must, see Tame the BeaST.

It's probably better to switch to BibLaTeX if you want to really have fine grained control over this kind of thing.

[alex170872]

Hi,

I appreciate your help, and I gave the "Tame the BeaST" document a look, but it does not seem to answer my question. It explains how to work with the bst file to format the references at the end of the document, but not the way the references appear in the main text (i.e. as number or as Author+year...).

Anyone any more specific idea or a link to some documentation on this particular issue?


Thanks
Alex