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I am using LaTeX with the article document class. The Bibtex bibliography style that I am using is agsm, part of the Harvard family of bibliography styles.

My article entry is

@Article{Bozzola2018,
    author  = {Bozzola, Martina and Massetti, Emanuele and Mendelsohn, Robert and Capitanio, Fabian},
    title   = {A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on Italian agriculture},
    journal = {European Review of Agricultural Economics},
    year    = {2018},
    volume  = {45},
    number  = {1},
    pages   = {57-79},
    issn    = {0165-1587},
    doi     = {10.1093/erae/jbx023},
    type    = {Journal Article},
 }

If I cite Bozzola et al. (2018), then under agsm style, it would be as below in the reference list.

   Bozzola, M., Massetti, E., Mendelsohn, R. and Capitanio, F. (2018),
       ‘A ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on Italian agriculture’, 
        European Review of Agricultural Economics 45(1), 57–79

Which part of the agsm.bst can I modify to obtain the outcome as 

   Bozzola, M., E. Massetti, R. Mendelsohn, and F. Capitanio (2018),
       ‘A ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on Italian agriculture’, 
        European Review of Agricultural Economics 45(1), 57–79 ?
Vũ Võ
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  • Instead of hacking an existing bib style, especially a quirky one such as agsm, it would be much more efficient if you familiarized yourself with the makebst utility, which is part of the custom-bib package. The makebst utility lets users create highly customized bibliography style files from scratch. (In case you doubt my claim that agsm is quirky, do please check out the posting AGSM bibliography style sometimes doesn't abbreviate to “et al.” for duplicate author+year.) – Mico Jun 14 '18 at 16:02
  • Off-topic: The words "Ricardian" and "Italian" should be encased in curly braces, so that they won't get converted to all-lowercase lettering by a BibTeX bibliography style that practices [English-language] "sentence style". – Mico Jun 14 '18 at 16:23
  • Thanks for two comments. @Mico, actually I am writting research proposal and must follow "Harvard-ISS" style as the link following: https://www.eur.nl/sites/corporate/files/2017-10/ISS%20Referencing%20Guide%202017-18%20%5Bv.%202%20August%202017%5D.pdf I amnot familiar with BibTex, just starting, and see that the "agsm" style to some extent similar to my uni's requirement. At this moment I am studying how to use Bibulous. But the urgent case now, I think I utilise the agsm :-) – Vũ Võ Jun 14 '18 at 16:31
  • It's a common misunderstanding that in order to "follow Harvard-ISS style", one must use an existing bibliography style (such as agsm) from the harvard family of styles. This is simply not the case. Happily, the makebst utility lets users create a bst file that satisfies each and every formatting requirement of the "Harvard-ISS" style -- and much more rapidly and robustly so than if users take the route of adapting (hacking!) an existing but quirky style such as agsm. Observing that the "agsm style [is] to some exten[t] similar to my uni's requirement" isn't saying much, really. – Mico Jun 14 '18 at 16:33
  • Consider use biblatex and biber. Probably you can fix all style requirement easily via biblatex package options without making a .bst file, and maybe only using a predefined Harvard style for biblatex. I not testead any of these but seem that biblatex-bath package or ecobiblatex could be what you are looking for. Without biblatex, maybe bath-bst can help. – Fran Jun 14 '18 at 19:01
  • Thanks Mico! I am going to forward to biblatex. No pain no gain :-) – Vũ Võ Jun 14 '18 at 19:28
  • @VũVõ - I'm very glad I was able to convince you to drop the project of modifying the agsm bibliography style. – Mico Jun 14 '18 at 20:17
  • @Mico - I approached LaTex 10 years ago, just use it. Not understand well how it works behind. It is also true for the Bibtex. I haven't updated much on how many packages can format the bibliography, and think that only Bibtex can do this work. :-) just follow the old route :-) Thanks again! – Vũ Võ Jun 14 '18 at 20:46

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