Bibtex Hack - Add output types to misc in else-harv.bst for bibtex

Question

I am using Windows, Lyx, Jabraf, Bibtex, else-harv.bst

Adding fields to misc

I would like to add output files to my else-harv.bst file for the type misc. Namely I would like to include:

Subtitle

Institution

Date

In the same order as the above stated, so that the output would be:

Author, Title, Subtitle, Institution, Date, Howpublished

Or even better:

An even better solution to this problem would be to get bibtex to display all fields that are entered in Jabraf in the misc - type.

Have searched the forum a bit and I haven't found any solution to this, therefore help is very appreciated. Please note I am a noob-programmer, so I hope my question is even possible.

Examplary Misc Entry

@Misc{testmiscentry,
  author       = {Doe, John},
  title        = {This is a title}},
  subtitle     = {This is a subtitle},
  year         = {2016},
  date         = {2016-08-26},
  institution  = {Test Bank}
  howpublished = {Personal communication},
}

Edit

Since this question achieved quite little attention I would be also appreciative for not complete answers, but just for ways to start.

A Latex Minimal Example

\documentclass[11pt,twoside,british,openright, bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\begin{document}

\citet{testmiscentry}

\bibliographystyle{C:/Users/[....]/else-harv.bst}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{test_bib}

\end{document}

Note that the bibliographystyle path is not complete. I have not included my whole Lyx exported Latex code, but I think these are the relevant things.

Edit

I managed to get the institution field included by adding

  institution "institution" output.check

in the misc function so that:

FUNCTION {misc}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors output
  author format.key output
  format.date "year" output.check
  date.block
  format.title output
  new.sentence
  institution "institution" output.check
  howpublished output
  format.note output
  fin.entry
  write.url
}

I can live without getting the subtitle to work, but I would really appreciate some help to get date added to the output.

Answer 1

You have to make several modifications to the bst file:

1) Add date and subtitle to ENTRY

ENTRY
  { address
    author
    booktitle
    chapter
    date
    edition
    editor
    howpublished
    institution
    journal
    key
    month
    note
    number
    organization
    pages
    publisher
    school
    series
    subtitle
    title
    type
    url
    volume
    year
  }
  {}
  { label extra.label sort.label short.list }

2) Define 2 new functions, format.mydate and format.subtitle

FUNCTION {format.mydate}
{ date empty$
    { "" }
    { date }
  if$
}

FUNCTION {format.subtitle}
{ subtitle empty$
    { "" }
    { subtitle "t" change.case$
    }
  if$
}

3) Modify function misc

FUNCTION {misc}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors output
  author format.key output
  format.date "year" output.check
  date.block
  format.title output
  format.subtitle output
  new.sentence
  institution output
  format.mydate output
  howpublished output
  format.note output
  fin.entry
  write.url
}

---

Besides note that your bib file is incorrect. It should read:

@Misc{testmiscentry,
  author       = {Doe, John},
  title        = {This is a title},
  subtitle     = {This is a subtitle},
  year         = {2016},
  date         = {2016-08-26},
  institution  = {Test Bank},
  howpublished = {Personal communication}
}