Get same layout for title-tag in misc and book using natbib

Question

I have a .bib file, bibtex.bib, with @book and @misc (for URLs)

@MISC {urlkey,
title        = {The good page},
author       = {Some Guy},
howpublished = {[Online]. Available on: \url{www.google.com}},
note = {URL, accessed 05-05-2015}
}

@BOOK {bookkey,
author       = {Some Other Guy},
title        = {The Good Book},
year         = {2012},
publisher    = {Pearson}
} 

Problem is that the book-title is italics where the url is not, I'm using the following in my preamble.

\bibliography{bibtex}
\bibliographystyle{plain}

I'd like for both to be italics. How do I achieve this behaviour?

Answer 1

You have modify the bst-file. Make sure to save it under a new name and change the date in the file.

Change the misc function to look like this:

FUNCTION {misc}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors output
  title howpublished new.block.checkb
  format.btitle output%<- significant change
  howpublished new.block.checka
  howpublished output
  format.date output
  new.block
  note output
  fin.entry
  empty.misc.check
}

The test document:

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @MISC {urlkey,
        title        = {The good page},
        author       = {Some Guy},
        howpublished = {[Online]. Available on: \url{www.google.com}},
        note         = {URL, accessed 05-05-2015}
    }

    @BOOK {bookkey,
        author       = {Some Other Guy},
        title        = {The Good Book},
        year         = {2012},
        publisher    = {Pearson}
    } 
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\bibliographystyle{emilPlain}
\end{document}