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I am using the standard article class and bib style unsrt with LaTeX and BibTeX. I would like to customize individual biblabels in my list of references, for instance starring certain items as follows:

[1] A. Uthor ...

*[2] B. Uthor ...

[3] C. Uthor ...

where the labels should be right-aligned so that the starred ones stand out. Thanks to this forum, I know how to customize all the labels with:

\makeatletter

\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{\mbox{$\star \left[ \right.$}#1\mbox{$\left. \right]$}}

\makeatother

but how can I customize only specific ones? A solution based on BibTeX tags would be prefered, but others will be considered.

Mensch
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mmakster
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It mostly depends on how you decide what entries must be starred. I assume that you can decide via a substring of the key.

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{gander2001,
 author={Gladstone Gander},
 title={How to be lucky},
 journal={Nature},
 pages={1-33},
 volume={42},
 year={2001},
}
@article{ducks2002,
 author={Donald Duck and Fethry Duck},
 title={How to be unlucky},
 journal={Nature},
 pages={34-44},
 volume={43},
 year={2002},
}
@book{scrooge1901,
 author={Scrooge McDuck},
 title={My first golden nugget in {Klondike}},
 publisher={Yukon Press},
 address={Whitehorse},
 year={1901},
}
@book{scrooge1990,
 author={Scrooge McDuck},
 title={How to manage zillion of dollars},
 publisher={McDuck Press},
 address={Duckburg},
 year={1990},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\setspeciallist}{ m }
 {
  \seq_gset_split:Nnn \g_mmakster_special_list_seq { , } { #1 }
 }

\cs_set_eq:Nc \mmakster_original_bibitem:n { @bibitem }

\seq_new:N \g_mmakster_special_list_seq
\bool_new:N \l_mmakster_star_bool
\cs_set_protected:cpn { @bibitem } #1
 {
  \bool_set_false:N \l_mmakster_star_bool
  \seq_map_inline:Nn \g_mmakster_special_list_seq
   {
    \tl_if_in:nnT { #1 } { ##1 } 
     { \bool_set_true:N \l_mmakster_star_bool \seq_map_break: }
   }
  \mmakster_original_bibitem:n { #1 }
 }
\cs_set_protected:cpn { @biblabel } #1
 {
  \bool_if:NT \l_mmakster_star_bool { \leavevmode\llap{*} }[#1]
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff

\setspeciallist{gander,duck}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

With this the two entries "Gander" and "Duck and Duck" have a key that has one of the strings in \setspeciallist as substring, so they will be starred.

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egreg
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