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I use TexMaker with TeXworks to write a paper. The comments I use are given below.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[numbers,sort & compress]{natbib}

\begin{document}

\section{Section_1}
\section{Section_2}
\section{Section_3}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt,firstinit=true}
\bibliography{Bibfile}

\end{document}

I generated Bibfile using Mendeley. In the LaTeX generated file, following issues are there:

  1. Author names are abbreviated and some are not; I need all authors name in all the references abrreviated.

  2. In some references, issue numbers also present. I want to remove it.

  3. In some references, month is also displayed before the year (may 2015). But I need only the year.

Simply, the format I want is the following:

"Charles, A. B. and Daniel, B. C., Title of the Paper, Journal Name, Vol_No.: Page_Numbers, Year."

Thanks in advance for any help/hint to solve these issues.

phenomenon
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE! The instruction \bibliographystyle{unsrt,firstinit=true} doesn't look right: the macro \bibliographystyle takes only one argument, the name of a bibliography style file. – Mico Apr 15 '16 at 05:36
  • Your formatting requirements may be sufficiently unique so as to make it unlike that any existing style satisfies all of them. You may want to look into running the makebst utility -- part of the custom-bib package -- to create a bespoke bibliography style from scratch. – Mico Apr 15 '16 at 05:39
  • Incidentally, should one of the requirements be that the formatted entries shouldn't be sorted alphabetically, but instead should be listed in the order they are cited in the body of the document? – Mico Apr 15 '16 at 05:41
  • @Mico The references should be listed in the order they are cited in the body of the document. – phenomenon Apr 15 '16 at 06:39
  • Thanks for this reply. In this case, I would definitely like to encourage you to learn how to run the makebst utility, if you want to stick with BibTeX. – Mico Apr 15 '16 at 07:28
  • @Mico Thanks. I don't want to stick with BibTeX. Any other suggestion? – phenomenon Apr 15 '16 at 07:56
  • There's the biblatex package to consider. Be aware, though, that the switching costs associated from natbib/BibTeX to biblatex may be at least as high as learning how to run the makebst utility to create a bespoke bibliography style file that implements all of your formatting requirements. – Mico Apr 15 '16 at 08:13
  • Thanks a lot @Mico for your suggession. I will start to learn makebst. – phenomenon Apr 15 '16 at 08:26
  • I've voted to close your posting, not because I think it's not a good question [!], but because I think it's a duplicate of sorts to an earlier posting that asks a fairly similar question, and to which the accepted answer was to look into using the makebst utility. Happy BibTeXing! – Mico Apr 15 '16 at 16:02

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