I am using the plainyr-rev.bst for a report (standard bibliography, but sorted in reverse order according to the year of publication). This works well, but I would like to alter it a little bit:
instead of:
Author A ..., 1999
Author B ..., 1999
Author C ..., 1995
Author D ..., 1995
Author E ..., 1990
I would like something along the lines of:
1999 Author A ..., 1999
Author B ..., 1999
1995 Author C ..., 1995
Author D ..., 1995
1990 Author E ..., 1990
The idea is to make it easier on the eyes: I have about 200 entries and having year indicators would make it much easier to read around in the bibliography.
I have found a manual workaround: I first generate the .bbl file and then copy & paste these few lines of LaTeX between bibitem entries of different years (this is specific to my page layout):
\item[]
\hskip-\leftmargin
\begin{minipage}{\hintscolumnwidth}
\raggedleft\hintfont{1999} %add right year
\vspace{-1.2cm}
\end{minipage}
I looked at different FUNCTIONS within the .bst file but I have no idea where to add these lines to make it work automatically (i.e. without me copy & pasting in the bbl). Any suggestions?