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I am using the abbrv style under the natbib package for my bibliography. Is it possible to suppress, e.g., the field "SERIES", in the output?

Here is a item in my .bib file:

@book{GelfandVilenkin64GF4,
      AUTHOR = {Gel'fand, I. M. and Vilenkin, N. Ya.},
      TITLE = {Generalized functions. {V}ol. 4: {A}pplications of harmonic
          analysis},
      SERIES = {Translated by Amiel Feinstein},
      PUBLISHER = {Academic Press},
      ADDRESS = {New York },
      YEAR = {1964},
      PAGES = {xiv+384},
      MRCLASS = {46.00 (46.40)},
      MRNUMBER = {0173945 (30 \#4152)},
      MRREVIEWER = {J. L. B. Cooper},
    }

Thank you very much!

Anand
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    The method of removing the series field from the .bst file is good; just add a definition for series to return an empty object: FUNCTION{series}{""} – egreg Jan 15 '13 at 15:33

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You need to define a new style for that. Copy abbrv.bst to a new file, say myabbrv.bst, and put it somewhere where TeX can find it. Open it with an editor, and locate the function format.number.series. It should look like this:

FUNCTION {format.number.series}
{ volume empty$
    { number empty$
        { series field.or.null }
        { output.state mid.sentence =
            { "number" }
            { "Number" }
          if$
          number tie.or.space.connect
          series empty$
            { "there's a number but no series in " cite$ * warning$ }
            { " in " * series * }
          if$
        }
      if$
    }
    { "" }
  if$
}

Replace that with

FUNCTION {format.number.series}
{ volume empty$
    { number empty$
        { "" }
        { output.state mid.sentence =
            { "number" }
            { "Number" }
          if$
          number tie.or.space.connect
          series empty$
            { "there's a number but no series in " cite$ * warning$ }
            { " in " * series * }
          if$
        }
      if$
    }
    { "" }
  if$
}

i.e., we remove the part where it writes the <series>. Then use the new style myabbrv.

Since you are using natbib, you can also use the abbrvnat style. There, a similar edit will help, however, there is also another option by manipulating the \bibinfo macro.

mafp
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  • Thanks mafp. I followed your advice. But I get a Error message: Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations... – Anand Jan 15 '13 at 15:03
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    @Anand Well, it works here. Note that I fixed a bug in the new version of format.number.series. To nail down the error, please provide a complete MWE that shows the problem. – mafp Jan 15 '13 at 16:17
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    @Anand For possible reasons for your error, see also http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/54480/21591. – mafp Jan 15 '13 at 16:27
  • Dear mafp, thank you very much. It works well now. :) – Anand Jan 15 '13 at 17:52
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Here is my solution. It may not be the best way. I copy the abbrv.bst to my working folder and change it to another name: abbrv_mod.bst. Then delete the entry "series" in the ENTRY part:

ENTRY
{ address
author
booktitle
chapter
edition
editor
howpublished
institution
journal
key
month
note
number
organization
pages
publisher
school
title
type
volume
year
}

Then in the tex file, use the following command:

\bibliographystyle{abbrv_mod}
Anand
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