Create own BibTeX style or customize existing one?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to define new BibTeX style or to customize existing one. I have two reasons for this:

1. I want the author names/editors to be italic (for

Answer 1

You can try custom-bib :

This is the custom-bib package for generating customized BibTeX bibliography
styles from a generic file by means of the docstrip program that is part of
the LaTeX2e installation.