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I use bibtex with \bibliographystyle{alpha}

It works fine. My issue is with the following item.

@book{sga1,
       key = {{SGA1}},
     TITLE = {Rev\^etements \'etales et groupe fondamental},
     NOTE = {S{\'e}minaire de G{\'e}om{\'e}trie Alg{\'e}brique du Bois
          Marie 1960--1961 (SGA 1),
          Dirig{\'e} par Alexandre Grothendieck. Augment{\'e} de deux
          expos{\'e}s de M. Raynaud,
          Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 224},
     PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag},
     ADDRESS = {Berlin},
     YEAR = {1971},
     PAGES = {xxii+447},
 }

The tradition is to call this book SGA1. But in the text, it appears as SGA71, which is logical, but ugly. Is there a way to customize this specific item so that it appears as SGA1 in the text, without modifying its year?

Mico
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  • Real quick: How do you want the label of this entry to be typeset in the bibliography: as [SGA1] (i.e., as in the adjusted citations) or as [SGA71] (the default of the alpha bibliography style)? Please advise. – Mico Jan 12 '13 at 11:39

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The following works. We create a new style, that uses mylabel as a label if present, and the default alpha label otherwise

  1. Find file alpha.bst (on my machine it's in directory <TEXMF>/bibtex/bst/base) and create a copy named alpha2.bst in your working directory.

  2. Open the file in any editor.

  3. At the beginning, there's a long list named ENTRY{...}, add there one more line:

    mylabel

  4. The find FUNCTION {output.bibitem} (in my version it's on line 86) and modify it as follows:

    FUNCTION {output.bibitem}
{ newline$
  "\bibitem[" write$
  mylabel empty$ 'label 'mylabel if$ write$
  "]{" write$
  cite$ write$
  "}" write$
  newline$
  ""
  before.all 'output.state :=
}

  5. Save an close the file.

  6. Open your .bib file, and add to your entry:

    mylabel={SGA1},

  7. In your .tex file, change your style to \bibliographystyle{alpha2}.

  8. Run latex, bibtex, latex, latex.

  9. Happy TeXing!

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