How to format(bold) only the authors part of in text citation using apacite package

Question

I am using apacite package to format a report. At the moment using the \cite{key} command for the in text citation it appears as (Author, year), however I want to change the Author name labels to bold.

I have skimmed through the customize section of the package documentation, but could not find how to achieve it. So my question is how can I customize the formatting of author names-(change it to bold)?

My latex code:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{apacite}
\title{latex MWE}
\author{Imran}
\begin{document}
\cite{bib:Apriori}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{reference}
\end{document}

In the reference.bib file I have the following entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{bib:Apriori,
  author =       "Agrawal Rakesh and Srikant Ramakrishnan",
  title =        "Fast algorithms for mining association rules",
  booktitle =    "VLDB'94, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Very
                  Large Data Bases",
  year =         "1994",
  PAGES =        "487-499"
}

And the output is

The desired output would be to have the Author's name to appear as:

(Rakesh & Ramakrishnan, 1994)

Update:

The Customization section (6) of the apacite manual mentions \BAstyle that can be used to change the style of the authors' part of in text citation, but I don't know how to use it to correctly achieve the desired result. I have tried \renewcommand{\BAstyle}{\scshape} which does what the documentation says, but \renewcommand{\BAstyle}{\textbf} doesn't work.

Answer 1

You already identified \BAstyle yourself, but you can't use a macro such as \textbf for it, you need to use a switch

\renewcommand{\BAstyle}{\bfseries}