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I'm new to LaTeX and am using TeXstudio for compiling my documents. I'm using \usepackage{natbib} for bibliography. The reference file was imported from EndNote for bibtex in .txt format - I changed the file extension to .bib

The citations work fine but there are a lot of fields in the references I don't want appearing in my document. All of them have the keywords, copyright info., ISBN diplayed in the reference section. I changed the reference style - \bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN} -hoping it would solve the problem but it's not working.

I checked a lot of answers on this website and elsewhere but they talk about, what I find to be, advanced stuff - often a different package is being used. Is there a simple way for removing unwanted fields?

Also I used \def\bibfont{\footnotesize} for changing the font size but it also reduced the size for the heading 'References'. Can it be fixed?

And finally, I get an error sometimes that the .bib file does not have info in the author-name format. It works fine but every now and then when I open the file again, it gives me this error.

karlkoeller
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Gautam
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With your current settings you have to edit your bib file by hand.

The standard packages doesn't interact well with the bib-file. The compilation bibtex produces an new bbl file where the complete thebibliography environment is saved.

As in other questions/answers I suggest switching to biblatex. This packages allows you a better interaction between the the bib fields and the output. The switching is really simple and describes in various answers. One of the best is:

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Marco Daniel
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I disagree with the previous answer that says you have to manually edit the bib file or switch to biblatex.

I use natbib with the style "apalike" and it works just fine in displaying only the needed fields.

I tried to use \bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN} and that worked too: only some fields are displayed (e.g. it doesn't display keywords).

However, I noticed when I switched from one style to the other, the bibliography didn't change immediately. So you might need to re-compile your document a few times or delete the various output files to ensure that everything is compiled again. (I'm somewhat new to Latex too and I don't use TexStudio)

Anyway, you can get only the IEEEtranN fields displayed using natbib.

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    The only reason that they are not displayed is that they are not defined. But how can you suppress a field? – Marco Daniel Jul 06 '13 at 13:08
  • I am not sure I understand your comment. Using a style, you make only certain fields appear in your reference section. That's what the user wanted: showing some fields and no others. What am I missing? – BlueCoder Jul 06 '13 at 13:32
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    Not missing. I mean your style solves the requirements. But the style doesn't allow suppressing fields like url or number. – Marco Daniel Jul 06 '13 at 13:35
  • I assume that he uses IEEEtranN style because he wants IEEEtranN fields. If he wants to suppress fields that are included in IEEEtranN (like url), then he'd have to find a different style OR create a new style - possibly by modifying the IEEEtranN one (not sure how this is achieved though). – BlueCoder Jul 06 '13 at 13:41
  • (infact he expected IEEEtranN to solve his issues and the unwanted fields listed - keywords, copyright, ISBN - are not part of IEEEtranN. Therefore, I think that he had some problems in using IEEEtranN, like the "compilation problem" I had when switching from apalike to IEEEtranN ) – BlueCoder Jul 06 '13 at 13:43