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I'm trying to italicize journal article titles in my bibliography and so I've changed to code to include emphasize under the FUNCTION {format.title} section and removed the emphasize in the FUNCTION {article} section in my unsrt.bst file. However, when I compile, nothing changes and I'm convinced that there's a duplicate (possibly multiple) unsrt.bst files floating around. How do I check which file it's calling?

I looked around and people have mentioned to look in the ~/Library/texmf directory and I'm not entirely sure if those directories are self-created as I can't find them at all.

Alan Munn
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You should never change the distribution versions of files directly. Instead make a copy of the file and rename it.

Then you can put it in your local texmf folder (or in the same directory as your source .tex file.).

See the following question for details on how to set up a local texmf folder, and where things should go. .bst files should go in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst (on a Mac), or ~/texmf/bibtex/bst on most Linux systems. In that answer there is also a link to a script you can run to create a local texmf folder structure on a Mac. (I am the author.)

To find out which file is actually being loaded in a particular compilation, you can look at the console output or the log file (in the case of the bibliography the .blg file.)

To find out in advance which file TeX (or associated programs) will find for a particular package, you can use the following command from the Terminal:

kpsewhich <filename>

e.g. 

kpsewhich unsrt.bst

should return the following on a TL 2017 system. (In other years, the year will be different.)

/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/unsrt.bst
Alan Munn
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  • +1, but note that .bst file are not read during the compilation of a .tex file. – GuM Nov 13 '17 at 01:06
  • @GuM I was using TeX here to mean "the programs of the distribution", but since you insist, I've made things more accurate. :) – Alan Munn Nov 13 '17 at 01:08
  • Now the answer’s fine! :-) I really think those nine words will help novice users. – GuM Nov 13 '17 at 01:14