deleting the address item from a bibliography style

Question

I want to delete the address from the inproceedings type of bibtex. I have learnt that I have to modify the .bst file. In order to do this, I have followed the idea of the answer from bibliography style: merging the alpha style with the style of abbrv for author information

In that case, I wanted to change the format of the citations.

No, I have tried to change the contents of the inproceeding entry of the .bst file, but I do not understand the syntax of this file.

Here, I put the code of the inproceedings entry in order to do more easier your future answers.

FUNCTION {inproceedings}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors "author" output.check
  new.block
  format.title "title" output.check
  new.block
  crossref missing$
    { format.in.ed.booktitle "booktitle" output.check
      format.bvolume output
      format.number.series output
      format.pages output
      address empty$
    { organization publisher new.sentence.checkb
      organization output
      publisher output
      format.date "year" output.check
    }
    { address output.nonnull
      format.date "year" output.check
      new.sentence
      organization output
      publisher output
    }
      if$
    }
    { format.incoll.inproc.crossref output.nonnull
      format.pages output
    }
  if$
  new.block
  note output
  fin.entry
}

Answer 1

The key is the bit that reads

  address empty$
{ organization publisher new.sentence.checkb
  organization output
  publisher output
  format.date "year" output.check
}
{ address output.nonnull
  format.date "year" output.check
  new.sentence
  organization output
  publisher output
}
if$

This is a conditional block testing if the address is present. To remove the address from the printing, you need to force the route take. In an edited copy of the .bst, you can achieve that by replace all of the above lines with simply

  organization publisher new.sentence.checkb
  organization output
  publisher output
  format.date "year" output.check

This simply ignores the address entirely.