Take the 2-minute tour ×  In some academic circles, such as
theoretical physics, during a presentation it is customary for
the talking author to cite himself using only his initials,
while leaving the remaining author names unchanged as per the
citation style.  For instance, if my initials are DCG and I cite
a paper that has me as an author, it should show up as:  [Lima,
DCG, Horvath, 2010]  Is there any way to make this automatic in
LaTeX? I use powerdot for presentations and natbib for
references, and I have found nothing of the sort in their
documentations. Maybe there is a way to replace the strings
generated by BibTeX in the second LaTeX run, but I have no idea
how to do it.  share|improve this question The easiest method is
to modify the .bbl file when the presentation is complete and
the .bbl file is in its definitive form. Otherwise it would be
necessary to act on the .bib file. –  egreg Feb 11 '12 at 15:06
Yes, that would work, but I would like a more automatic method,
such as a command to be introdu