bibtex custom tag for certain citation

Question

I have a report where I reference articles and standards. Whereas for an article it is totally suitable to have a reference tag corresponding to the author's name, e.g. [Adr89], I would expect the tag for a standard to be more specific about the standard number, e.g. [DIN-13201-1] and [DIN-13201-2] instead of the automatically created tags [DIN04a] and [DIN04b].

Is there a way to set a custom tag name for an entry?

I'm using alphadin as bibliography style and the standards are of type @misc.

Answer 1

The bibliography style alphadin doesn't support such a custom tag. In relation to your request you have to modify the file alphadin.bst.

Instead of this I recommend the package biblatex which is more comfortable.

The following example uses biblatex. The label is created by the bib entry shorthand:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{DIN-13201-2,
title="DIN EN 13201-2:2004-04 Straßenbeleuchtung - Teil 2: Gütemerkmale",
subtitle="Deutsche Fassung EN 13201-2:2003",
date="2004-04",
language="Deutsch",
shorthand="DIN-13201-2"
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Example cite \cite{DIN-13201-2}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

The complete example after you have run:

pdflatex
biber
pdflatex
pdflatex

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