How to cite a title with natbib?

Question

I have searched far and wide after a solution, but haven't found one that works. The most prominent ones looks like: \citetitle and \citeeditor using the natbib & hyperref packages and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2496599/how-do-i-cite-the-title-of-an-article-in-latex

My relevant setup is:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oldfontcommands]{memoir}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{natbib}
%\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliographystyle{myabbrvnat}
\newcommand{\myand}{\&\ }
\setcitestyle{authoryear,aysep={},open={(},close={)}}
\begin{document}
In the book (Book Name) such and such is told to be true \citep{RefWorks:}.
\bibliography{cource}
\end{document}

with my source.bib-file looking like:

@book{RefWorks:1
     author={John Johnson},
     year={2015},
     title={Book Name},
     publisher={Publishing Company},
     address={United States of America},
     edition={1st},
     isbn={XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X}
}

Probably the reason why some of the suggestions that I have found won't work is the \bibliographystyle{myabbrvnat}. I can't remember where I found it, but it's to setup my bibliography the way I need it. Is that important? If needed to be posted, where can I post the text, since it goes over the character limit here?

I know there is a "sort of" solution, where I can make a citation aliasing like \defcitealias{RefWorks:1}{Book Name} and then insert it in the text like \citetalias{RefWorks:1} to give the title of the source. It's fine, but it's not what I'm looking for, because then I would need to set this up for my whole library, which would get tiresome.

Is there a way to setup a \cite+-type to give the title of a source?

Edit: I forgot to put hyperref package in my setup.

Answer 1

I modified abbrvnat.bst to issue \myand{} instead of and (changing the places where " and " appears). Then prepared this input file:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{RefWorks:1,
     author={John Johnson},
     year={2015},
     title={Book Name},
     publisher={Publishing Company},
     address={United States of America},
     edition={1st},
     isbn={XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X}
}
@book{RefWorks:2,
     author={John Johnson and Jack Jackson},
     year={2015},
     title={Book Name},
     publisher={Publishing Company},
     address={United States of America},
     edition={1st},
     isbn={XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oldfontcommands,article]{memoir}

\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{usebib}
\bibliographystyle{myabbrvnat}
\setcitestyle{authoryear,aysep={},open={(},close={)}}
\bibinput{\jobname} % <--- the same argument as in \bibliography
\newcommand{\myand}{\&}

\begin{document}

In the book ``\usebibentry{RefWorks:1}{title}'' by 
\citeauthor{RefWorks:1}, such and such is told 
to be true \citep{RefWorks:1}.

In the book ``\usebibentry{RefWorks:2}{title}'' by 
\citeauthor{RefWorks:2}, such and such is told 
to be true \citep{RefWorks:2}.

\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

This is the output

Note that filecontents is used just for convenience and you can use your own .bib file. Rememeber the limitation of usebib that fields must be delimited with braces and not with ".

On the other hand, one can coerce biblatex into producing the desired output:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{RefWorks:1,
     author={John Johnson},
     year={2015},
     title={Book Name},
     publisher={Publishing Company},
     address={United States of America},
     edition={1st},
     isbn={XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X}
}
@book{RefWorks:2,
     author={John Johnson and Jack Jackson},
     year={2015},
     title={Book Name},
     publisher={Publishing Company},
     address={United States of America},
     edition={1st},
     isbn={XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oldfontcommands,article]{memoir}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,firstinits,uniquename=init]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\AtBeginBibliography{%
  \DeclareNameAlias{author}{first-last}%
}
\renewcommand{\finalnamedelim}{%
  \ifnumgreater{\value{liststop}}{2}{\finalandcomma}{}%
  \addspace\&\space
}

\begin{document}

In the book ``\citetitle{RefWorks:1}'' by 
\citeauthor{RefWorks:1}, such and such is told 
to be true \parencite{RefWorks:1}.

In the book ``\citetitle{RefWorks:2}'' by 
\citeauthor{RefWorks:2}, such and such is told 
to be true \parencite{RefWorks:2}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}