Author-year citation call-out to be repeated at the start of the formatted bibliographic item

Question

I'm using natbib package and I'd like to have a bibliography where :

• the citation in the text are like : [Kent, 2000] or [Kent and Lane, 2000] or [Kent et al., 2000] (in bold)

• and in the bibliography : [Kent et al., year] Kent, C., Lane, L., Allen, B. (2000). The title of the article. Journal, etc

It is kind of a mix between "apalike" and "alpha" but my biggest problem is to have the brackets in the bibliography. I tried to edit the .bst files or via makebst but I was lost in it and didn't find the place where specify the brackets in the biblio... :-)

I hope it is clear, and someone has an idea ! Thks

Answer 1

Here a small fix:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\NAT@open{[\bfseries}
\renewcommand\NAT@close{]}
\xpatchcmd\@lbibitem{\item[\hfil\NAT@anchor{#2}{\NAT@num}]}{\item[\citep{#2}\NAT@anchor{#2}{\NAT@num}]}{}{}
\begin{document}
Text \citep{article-full}

Text \citep{book-full}


\bibliographystyle{newapa}
\bibliography{xampl}
\end{document}

The justification of the label is yours ;-)