BibTeX, biblatex and biberBibliography style

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sliv
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Bibliography style

Post by sliv »

Hello,
I'm new with LaTeX but I managed to write my thesis and now I am about to hand it in.
Big problem now, I asked for formatting rules and I was told there were none, but guess what, there are some... I already adjusted everything except the reference list....

here is my problem, right now I'm using bibliography style apa or apalike, but what I basically need is this: [example]
Rout et al. 2009 Rout, U.; Fahl, U.; Remme, U.; Blesl, M.; Voß, A.: Endogenous
implementation of technology gap in energy optimization models – a systematic
analysis within TIMES G5 model. In: Energy Policy, 37 (2009), Issue 7, S. 2814 –
2830.

So the first should be bold, and then after the "abbreviation" there should be the name of the authors, title of the book or pdf, magazine, book or publisher and if there is an url.
I was looking into creating own bibliography styles but it looks pretty hard to me, does anyone have a clue? i mean it cannot be that hard, basically everything is in the bib file, it's just a formatting thing but I don't have a clue anymore.

help is highly appreciated :)
thank you all
sliv

edit:
what might be another useful information, I am using TeXShop on MacOS

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kaiserkarl13
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Re: Bibliography style

Post by kaiserkarl13 »

You can make a custom bibliography by typing "latex makebst". Getting the author's name in boldface might be slightly challenging, but I recall there being an option to set it in small caps or some such, and if that's the case then it's easy to edit the .bst file directly and change the small caps to boldface.

If that doesn't do it, you might need to edit the .bst manually and/or use BibLaTeX (which I have never used, but I've been told is far superior and/or was designed for stuff like this).
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