BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Editing natbib's plainnat to blockquote notes

[Lewisham]

Hello there,
I'd like to make an annotated bibiliography, but natbib's plainnat doesn't wrap notes in the quote environment.

I can't for the life of me figure out the .bst file format, I was hoping someone might know how to edit this function so that it does the quoting, which I can then paste as a new function and change the note field to output through that instead.

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FUNCTION {output}
{ duplicate$ empty$
    'pop$
    'output.nonnull
  if$
}

Thanks in advance!

[josephwright]

Make a copy of plainnat.bst with a new name, then edit as follows. What you need to do is alter the part that prints the notes, which is not the 'output' function. Something like

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FUNCTION {article}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors "author" output.check
  author format.key output
  new.block
  format.title "title" output.check
  new.block
  crossref missing$
    { journal emphasize "journal" output.check
      eid empty$
        { format.vol.num.pages output }
        { format.vol.num.eid output }
      if$
      format.date "year" output.check
    }
    { format.article.crossref output.nonnull
      eid empty$
        { format.pages output }
        { format.eid output }
      if$
    }
  if$
  format.issn output
  format.doi output
  format.url output
  new.block
  note empty$
  'skip$
   { "\begin{quote}" note * "\end{quote}" * output }
  fi$
  fin.entry
}

You'll have to edit each entry that currently reads 'note output' to what I've got above.

[Lewisham]

EDIT: Dove into the command-line bibtex command and found it was upset about

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fi$

. Changed it to

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if$

and now it works great! Thank you!

[Eva1]

Hiya!
I am using plainnat.bst and I would like to change the citation from
Karlgren, J. (2008)a. ......
to
Karlgren, J. (2008a)...

Any ideas of how I could edit my plainnat file to get this output?
Thank you all in advance
Eva

FUNCTION {article}
{ output.bibitem
format.authors "author" output.check
author format.key output
new.block
format.date "year" output.check
new.block
format.title "title" output.check
new.block
crossref missing$
{ journal emphasize "journal" output.check
eid empty$
{ format.vol.num.pages output }
{ format.vol.num.eid output }
if$
}
{ format.article.crossref output.nonnull
eid empty$
{ format.pages output }
{ format.eid output }
if$
}
if$
format.issn output
format.doi output
format.url output
new.block
note output
fin.entry
}