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In the overleaf website abbrv makes the title italic and the journal name upright, like this:

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When I use this style on my paper (\bibliographystyle{abbrv}), it seems to do the opposite: it makes the title upright and the journal name italic. I took this screenshot from my paper

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How is it possible to change this?

Artus
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    Your claim that the abbrv bib style "makes the title italic and the journal name upright" would appear to be incorrect, at least for entries of type @article. For sure, in both [1] and [24], the journal fields ("Annalen der Physik" and "Int'l Journal of Production reseearch", respectively) are both rendered in italics whereas the title fields are both rendered in upright letters. Also, [2] and [3] do not appear to be based on entries of type @article. – Mico Oct 01 '22 at 07:05
  • @Mico Thanks. I didn't read [1] since it wasn't in English. I just read [2] and [3]. So I guess my question is...how can I make the type "article" this way as well (that's what I need to do to submit my paper). – Artus Oct 01 '22 at 07:28
  • This "I want to apply consistent formatting to all entry types" desire is voiced regularly on this site. E.g., this, that, and more. In such situations, the generally given piece of advice is, "there is absolutely no need for, or value in, making things -- such as entries of type @article and @book -- that are intrinsically different look the same". – Mico Oct 01 '22 at 07:50
  • Are you familiar with what Ralph Waldo Emerson had to say about (foolish) consistency? – Mico Oct 01 '22 at 07:52
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    @Mico I normally wouldn't care about changing the format, but this seems to be the format that the journal wants. I don't want to submit something incorrect, so is there a way to change how abbrv deals with articles? – Artus Oct 01 '22 at 08:00
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    My urgent advice is not to mess with the innards of the file abbrv.bst. Are you using the abbrv bib style because the submission instructions of the pubisher in question include such an instruction? If not, do they provide suggestions for which bibliography style (bst) to employ? If a journal has non-standard formatting instructions for bibliographic items, a reasonable journal should provide a bst file that implements said instructions... – Mico Oct 01 '22 at 08:16
  • @Mico Unfortunately, they do not have a bst file. I checked a sample that they have and they seem to write the bibliography within the tex file (using bibitem). If there isn't a solution for me (using abbrv), then I will have to write each of the my references the way they did which will take a long time. So my question: is there a quick fix that I can do on abbrv? – Artus Oct 01 '22 at 11:25
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    Simple answer: No. Longer, and hopefully more helpful answer: I recommend you become familiar with the makebst utility, which is part of the custom-bib package. The utility lets you create a bespoke bst file that incorporates all formatting requirements. – Mico Oct 01 '22 at 11:48
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    For an example of bst modification see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/122768/bibtex-make-title-italic-rest-upright. That is for alpha.bst but it should be very similar for abbrv.bst. – Marijn Oct 01 '22 at 13:23
  • Here is one for elsarticle-harc, which is already a numeric style: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376020/bibtex-how-can-i-make-the-journals-books-etc-titles-italic-using-elsearticle. But I advise you to double check if this is indeed "what the journal wants" or that you might have misunderstood the requirements, as this requirement is rather non-standard. Furthermore, journals are usually ok with some minor deviations from their guidelines, if the paper gets accepted then they will do their own copy-editing to make sure everything conforms to their format. – Marijn Oct 01 '22 at 13:31
  • @Marjin Unfortunately I just figured out that they don't support biblatex. So I will have to use add the referenes within the tex file. Anyways, thanks for your suggestions. – Artus Oct 02 '22 at 09:41
  • @Artus I'm not sure what you mean by "they don't support biblatex". The suggestions in my links but also the links from Mico are for BibTeX, not BibLaTeX. And when a journal doesn't support BibTeX they always do support including files produced by BibTeX (i.e., .bbl files), or if they don't even support that then they support copy-pasting from a .bbl file into your .tex file directly. So you still can use solutions for BibTeX that change the use of italics compared to default styles. – Marijn Oct 02 '22 at 18:31

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