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I'd like to generate a bibliography where authors (or maybe the title of the cited document) are printed in bold/small caps. However, I've just been able to find the following entry related with this topic

Making bibtex reference entry bold?

where each entry in the bibliography needs to be tuned by hand. Unfortunately, I have such a long bibliography that I'd like to consider a cleaner/more automatic approach to do that. Is this possible? If so, how should I tune the small code below using pdflatex+bibtex?

\documentclass{article}
\title{This is my first document}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Hello~\cite{AmSLaTeX},~\cite{nothing}.
\bibliography{biblio}
\bibliographystyle{is-plain}
\end{document}

with this bibliography

@ARTICLE{nothing,
         author    = "{noone et al.}",
         title     = "nothing",
         journal   = "nowhere",
         year      = 1986, }
@MANUAL{AmSLaTeX,
         author    = "{American Mathematical Society}",
         title     = "amslatex Version 1.2 User's Guide",
         month     = jan,
         year      = 1995, }

Edit

PS: This entry may be also useful to any forthcoming readers: Biblatex bibliography title fields for different entries

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You can have such a functionality easilly with the biblatex package, by redefining the mkbibnamefamilly command. See also the p.95 of the biblatex (Version 2.8a 25/11/2013) documentation.

\begin{filecontents*}{biblio.bib}
@ARTICLE{nothing,
         author    = {Noone and others},
         title     = "nothing",
         journal   = "nowhere",
         year      = 1986, }
@MANUAL{AmSLaTeX,
         author    = {{American Mathematical Society}},
         title     = "amslatex Version 1.2 User's Guide",
         month     = jan,
         year      = 1995, }
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}
\bibliography{biblio}
% Chose one of the following.
\renewcommand\mkbibnamefamily[1]{\textbf{#1}}
%\renewcommand\mkbibnamefamily[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\begin{document}
Hello~\cite{AmSLaTeX},~\cite{nothing}.
\printbibliography[title={My Custom Title}]
\end{document}

(Versions prior to biblatex 3.3 should use \mkbibnamelast instead of \mkbibnamefamily.)

If you uncomment the "small caps" version and comment the bold version, you get :

Sample output

The general way to adopt biblatex is explained in the answer's to What to do to switch to biblatex?.

Edit You can finely tune what will be displayed in bold / small caps with the following options:

\mkbibnamefamily{text} This command, which takes one argument, is used to format the last name of all authors, editors, translators, etc.
\mkbibnamefirst{text} Similar to \mkbibnamefamily, but intended for the first name.
\mkbibnameprefix{text} Similar to \mkbibnamefamily, but intended for the name prefix.
\mkbibnameaffix{text} Similar to \mkbibnamefamily, but intended for the name affix.

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  • Thank you very much. That biblatex seems really interesting. To typeset the title in bold, I've found that page 128 of ctan.mirrorcatalogs.com/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/doc/… seems to put the title in emphasized mode, I'll try it tomorrow... – Harald Jul 14 '14 at 16:24
  • It should be author={{American Mathematical Society}}, as it's a single name. Probably the second one should be author={noone and others} – egreg Jul 14 '14 at 16:24
  • @egreg : thank you, I did not okked at the bib file at all, but you are right. – Clément Jul 14 '14 at 16:27
  • @redcrash : you can edit the title of the bibliography with the title={My title} option, I'l edit my answer in a minute. – Clément Jul 14 '14 at 16:28
  • I added \DeclareFieldFormat{title}{\textbf{#1}} in order to get the title of each entry of the bibliography in bold, but on the example given only the book was printed in bold, whereas the title of the article was printed as normal. Which is the appropriate field in article to typeset the title in bold? – Harald Jul 14 '14 at 20:14
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You could open the .bib file and do a find and replace of author = " { with author ="\textbf{`

This seems a bit of an annoying hack though. I'm sure you could find a better way to do it in the .bst file.

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    This is not good since the closing brace } should be inserted one by one. The coudl should be author = {\textbf{D.E. Knuth}}, – Sigur Jul 14 '14 at 15:21
  • Biblatex provides such a functionlaity without hack, and OP made it clear that he had a "long bibliography" and would like a "more automatic approach". Editing the bib file by hands do not seems to be an option. – Clément Jul 14 '14 at 15:32
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    Yes, that's it as Clément states, but thank you for the comment dmt. BTW, what does OP mean? :) – Harald Jul 14 '14 at 16:34
  • @redcrash : from wikipedia : "Original post or original poster, the first post or person to post on a topic in an Internet forum" – Clément Jul 14 '14 at 16:43

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