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I need help with the exact thing as been answered here https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47526/181498! I do not understand the solution though. This is what I tried to do:

  1. I found the agsm.bst file here: http://crpit.com/agsm.bst

  2. I saved the text page in an ordinary text document and changed the line

    { format.title quote "title" output.check }

    as specified to

    { format.title "title" output.check }

  3. I then saved the document as agsm-nq.bst in the same directory as the document that I'm currently working on and used \bibliographystyle{agsm-nq} instead of \bibliographystyle{agsm}.

This did not work though. Is there not a simpler way of doing this? What am I doing wrong?

Mico
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Victor Galeano
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    The the file from CTAN and not a third party: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/harvard/agsm.bst Other than that it sounds like the steps you went through were alright. There are a few caveats: Did you make absolutely sure that the new file is indeed called agsm-nq.bst? On Windows hidden file extensions may mean that the file is actually called agsm-nq.bst.txt or something to that effect. How exactly did things not work? Did you run LaTeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, LaTeX after the change to the document? Did you get any errors on the BibTeX run? – moewe Apr 02 '19 at 15:21
  • If you want to stick to agsm, then yes this is the easiest solution. You could try to find a similar style without quotation marks but there are many, many styles out there and depending on the desired output you may not find anything that fits. – moewe Apr 02 '19 at 15:24
  • Did you make sure that the line you edited as described in line item 2 above occurred in the article function? The reason I ask is that there's an identical-looking line in the booklet function. – Mico Apr 02 '19 at 17:40
  • Thanks for the answers! I made sure that the change I made was under the article function but I noticed now that the file extension is not saved as .bst and I dont know how to make this happen. I tried googling for some conversion tool but there are none, it seems. – Victor Galeano Apr 04 '19 at 08:05
  • Using a more advanced text editor might help, for example Notepad++ in Windows (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/). – Marijn Apr 04 '19 at 08:08
  • Thank you! In the end the problem was that I did not save the file as .bst. Now it is working! Again, thanks everyone. – Victor Galeano Apr 04 '19 at 08:18
  • Now I feel like I want to change some more things with the agsm file. Hehe. For instance I want to have a punctuation after the the year "Gruber, S. (2017)." instead of a comma "Gruber, S. (2017)," and have the title in italics. Where can I change this? Dont know if this is supposed to be posted as a separate question on this forum or not. – Victor Galeano Apr 04 '19 at 08:28
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    @VictorGaleano it is best if you post a separate question about this. You can also read some manuals, for example http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf section 4. – Marijn Apr 04 '19 at 09:43
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As evil workaround you can set the category codes of the quotes to 9 (=ignore) just before the bibliographystyle. Note that this is evil and a workaround.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
See \cite{test}.

\catcode`'=9
\catcode``=9
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{References}
\end{document}

Before:

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After:

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Marijn
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    Clever, but the evilness might have bad effects for many other things that could appear within a title, such as apostrophes, words themselves in quotes, etc. So I think this should really not be recommended even as a workaround. – Alan Munn Apr 02 '19 at 16:02
  • This looks simple enough but I get an error message when compiling the pdf: ! Missing number, treated as zero. \active l.3 \catcode `"\active A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) ) – Victor Galeano Apr 04 '19 at 07:52
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    @VictorGaleano are you sure you copied it correctly, including the backtick characters? Anyway, as Alan Munn commented, this is not really a solution, it is just a small demonstration of the \catcode command. As a real solution you should implement the format.title approach from the linked question. – Marijn Apr 04 '19 at 08:06
  • Yeah, I think I copied it correctly. Anyhow, I got it working with the format.title approach. :) Thanks! – Victor Galeano Apr 04 '19 at 09:18