A smart way to include the bibliography

[Fabio Zeiser]

I spend some time to include a list of articles in a smart way. There are several solutions available, see eg. rgeirhos /
academic-cv-publications and How to use BibTeX for putting a nice publication list in resume with document class (res.cls), but they did not fulfill my demands:

• automatic formatting according to a provided style
• read literature from bibtex file
• highlighting (mentioning) some works, whilst the rest should be printed as a list (not repeating the works already highlighted)
• visual highlight (here: bold -- maybe underscore would have been nicer) of my name in all publications

I hacked together a solution using biblatex. It's really not beautiful, but worked very well. Any better suggestions are of course welcome, but I thought I can share my insights.

It looks like this, where [1] to [6] are described in some more detail, and "minor contribution" is the full list of other works and continues for two more pages)

The bibtex setup I used:

\usepackage[backend=bibtex8,
		style=numeric,
		maxbibnames=99,
		maxcitenames=99,
    natbib=true,
    url=false,
    doi=true,
    eprint=true,
    sorting=ydnt,
    defernumbers=true
    ]{biblatex}
\urlstyle{same}
\addbibresource{publications.bib}

For highlighting (mentioning) some works, whilst the rest should be printed as a list (not repeating the works already highlighted)

% Biblatex: Print bibliography for custom enumeration (highlights + rest in list)
% Adapted from https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/163774/biblatex-print-bibliography-for-a-single-entry-within-an-enumeration
\newcommand{\enumcite}[1]{%
  \addtocategory{enumpapers}{#1}%
  \defbibcheck{key#1}{
    \iffieldequalstr{entrykey}{#1}
      {}
      {\skipentry}}%
  \printbibliography[heading=none,check=key#1]%
}
\DeclareBibliographyCategory{enumpapers}

visual highlight (here: bold -- maybe underscore would have been nicer) of my name in all publications

%%%% bib: bold author %%%
% see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73136/make-specific-author-bold-using-biblatex

\usepackage{xpatch}% or use http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/40705

\def\makenamesetup{%
  \def\bibnamedelima{~}%
  \def\bibnamedelimb{ }%
  \def\bibnamedelimc{ }%
  \def\bibnamedelimd{ }%
  \def\bibnamedelimi{ }%
  \def\bibinitperiod{.}%
  \def\bibinitdelim{~}%
  \def\bibinithyphendelim{.-}}
\newcommand*{\makename}[3]{\begingroup\makenamesetup\xdef#1{#2, #3}\endgroup}

\newbibmacro*{name:bold}[2]{%
  \makename{\currname}{#1}{#2}%
  \makename{\findname}{\lastname}{\firstname}%
  \makename{\findinit}{\lastname}{\firstinit}%
  \ifboolexpr{ test {\ifdefequal{\currname}{\findname}}
            or test {\ifdefequal{\currname}{\findinit}} }{\bfseries}{}}

\newcommand*{\boldname}[3]{%
  \def\lastname{#1}%
  \def\firstname{#2}%
  \def\firstinit{#3}}
\boldname{}{}{}

\xpretobibmacro{name:family}{\begingroup\usebibmacro{name:bold}{#1}{#2}}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{name:given-family}{\begingroup\usebibmacro{name:bold}{#1}{#2}}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{name:family-given}{\begingroup\usebibmacro{name:bold}{#1}{#2}}{}{}
\xpretobibmacro{name:delim}{\begingroup\normalfont}{}{}

\xapptobibmacro{name:family}{\endgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{name:given-family}{\endgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{name:family-given}{\endgroup}{}{}
\xapptobibmacro{name:delim}{\endgroup}{}{}


% \boldname{Author}{Zeiser}{F.}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given/given-family}
\boldname{Zeiser}{Fabio}{F.}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

and finally, in the document (simplified from my document):

Here is a first full citation of Zeiser2015 and Zeiser2020; they will not appear in the "full list"
\enumcite{Zeiser2015} 
\enumcite{Zeiser2020}

And all the other works: (not Zeiser2015 and Zeiser2020)
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[heading=none, notcategory=enumpapers]

[Fabio Zeiser]

Btw: As the publication list spans over several pages, I use it in a tcolorbox environement

% for page breaks
\usepackage[skins,breakable]{tcolorbox}

and in the document:

\newpage
\begin{tcolorbox}[
  blanker,
  width=0.9\textwidth,
  before skip=6pt,
  breakable,]
[...]
Here is a first full citation of Zeiser2015 and Zeiser2020; they will not appear in the "full list"
\enumcite{Zeiser2015} 
\enumcite{Zeiser2020}

And all the other works: (not Zeiser2015 and Zeiser2020)
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[heading=none, notcategory=enumpapers]
[...]
\end{tcolorbox}

which is a solution adapted from How to make minipage spanning multiple pages