Coloring Specific References in Bibliography

Question

In revised versions of a manuscript, we usually mark the new changes with colored text. This question is concerned about the different ways that this can be done for specific references in the .bib file. There are previous solutions about this but they are not satisfactory to me. This one just do the job for one reference. Here is the extension of the previous one for several references by using several nested ifstreqal. But this can get really useless when the number of colored references increases.

What I have in mind is to have a code, which gets all of the labels of colored references without getting the user involved in making nested structures.

Other new solutions are also welcomed.

Here is a MWE to start with.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}
    @article{greenwade93,
        author  = "George D. Greenwade",
        title   = "The {C}omprehensive {T}ex {A}rchive {N}etwork ({CTAN})",
        year    = "1993",
        journal = "TUGBoat",
        volume  = "14",
        number  = "3",
        pages   = "342--351"
    }
    @book{goossens93,
        author    = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin",
        title     = "The LaTeX Companion",
        year      = "1993",
        publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
        address   = "Reading, Massachusetts"
    }
    @article{fuente, 
        author = "D. de la Fuente and J.G. Castaño and M. Morcillo", 
        title = "Long-term atmospheric corrosion of zinc", 
        journal = "Corrosion Science", 
        volume = "49", 
        year = "2007", 
        pages = "1420–1436",
    }
    @article{nature, 
        author = "Rosa Rademakers and Manuela Neumann and Ian R. Mackenzie", 
        title = "Advances in understanding the molecular basis of frontotemporal dementia - elongated title", 
        journal = "Nature Reviews Neurology", 
        volume = "8", 
        year = "2012", 
        pages = "423-434", 
        doi = "10.1038/nrneurol.2012.117",
    } 
} 
\end{filecontents}

\let\mybibitem\bibitem
\renewcommand{\bibitem}[1]{%
    \ifstrequal{#1}{greenwade93}
    {\color{blue}\mybibitem{#1}}
    {\color{black}\mybibitem{#1}}%
}

\begin{document}

This is my document \cite{fuente} and we have another \cite{nature}. We can speak also about \LaTeX! So two more reference are \cite{greenwade93} and \cite{goossens93}

\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\bibliography{jobname}

\end{document}

Can you switch to biblatex? There you could define a category and add your references to it. — Ulrike Fischer, Feb 11 '18 at 11:15
@UlrikeFischer: That would be no problem if it is similar to bibTeX from a user point of view. :) I would like to know your solution. :) — Hosein Rahnama, Feb 11 '18 at 14:29

Ulrike Fischer · Answer 1 · 2018-02-11T15:08:10.983

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With biblatex/biber it is rather easy to mark references:

 \documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\DeclareBibliographyCategory{changed}
\addtocategory{changed}{doody,angenendt}
\AtEveryBibitem{\ifcategory{changed}{\color{red}}{}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelnumberwidth}{\ifcategory{changed}{\textcolor{green}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\cite{doody,herrmann,angenendt}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

edited Feb 11 '18 at 15:08

answered Feb 11 '18 at 14:45

Ulrike Fischer

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(+1) Thanks for your answer. Would you please edit the answer such that there are four references from which two or three are colored. :) – Hosein Rahnama Feb 11 '18 at 15:05
You only need to add more keys to the \addtocategory. – Ulrike Fischer Feb 11 '18 at 15:08

Coloring Specific References in Bibliography

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