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I am writing this reference in my .tex file
\begin{thebibliography}
\bibitem{Thomas} Thomas, V. A., El-Hajjar, M., Hanzo, L.: Performance improvement and cost reduction techniques for radio over fiber communications.IEEE Communications Surveys \& Tutorials. {\boldm $17$}(2), 627-670(2015).
When I see the generated file it comes like this:
expected to form the mainstay of the future fifth generation of wireless networks [1]
instead of [1] I need (Thomas).
I just run over similar situation. If your reference is just Thomas (also works with spaces, but unfortunately not with commas (yet)), you could define the bibliography with:
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\setcitestyle{authoryear,open={(},close={)}}
(see https://de.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Natbib_citation_styles)
Then your bibitem should look like that:
\bibitem[Thomas]{Thomas} Thomas, V. A., El-Hajjar, M., Hanzo, L.: Performance improvement and cost reduction techniques for radio over fiber communications.IEEE Communications Surveys \& Tutorials. {\boldm $17$}(2), 627-670(2015).
