My CV LaTeX Setup

Below I describe the method using biblatex and biber (bibtex should work similarly). My preamble has something like this

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

% the max parameters limit the number of authors,  e.g., print et al after the first 10 names
\usepackage[backend=biber,doi=false,isbn=false,maxcitenames=10,maxbibnames=10,style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{cv.bib}  

Consists of 2 parts: the first part are regular bib entries, the second are additional customizations and formats for those entries.

1. This part contains standard bib entries, e.g.,

   @inproceedings{nguyen2021gentree,
     title={GenTree: Using decision trees to learn interactions for configurable software},
     author={Nguyen, KimHao and Nguyen, ThanhVu},
     booktitle={International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
     pages={1598--1609},
     year={2021},
     organization={IEEE}
   }
   
   @article{le2020dynamite,
     title     = {DynamiTe: dynamic termination and non-termination proofs},
     author    = {Le, TonChanh and Antonopoulos, Timos and Fathololumi, Parisa and Koskinen, Eric and Nguyen, ThanhVu},
     journal   = {Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages},
     volume    = {4},
     number    = {OOPSLA},
     pages     = {1--30},
     year      = {2020},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA}
   }
   ... 
   

2. This part has bib entries that "inherit" the standard ones in the previous part. They allow us to customize the standard bib entries , e.g., bold top venues, students' names, additional info such as acceptance rate, etc.

   @String{
   ICSE={\textbf{International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)}}}
   @String{
   PACMPL={\textbf{Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages}}
   }
   ...
   
   @inproceedings{nguyen2021gentreec,
   crossref = {nguyen2021gentree},
   author={Nguyen$^1$, KimHao and Nguyen, ThanhVu},
   booktitle=ICSE,
   url={https://dynaroars.github.io/pubs/nguyen2021gentree.pdf},
   addendum={acceptance rate 22\%}
   }
   
   @article{le2020dynamitec,
   crossref={le2020dynamite},
     journal = PACMPL,
     url={https://dynaroars.github.io/pubs/le2020dynamite.pdf},
     addendum= {acceptance rate 36\%}
   }
   
   ...
   

Note: you can also create 2 bib files for these two parts (but I prefer to have as few files as possible).

As can be seen, the entries from from the second part inherit those from the first part using crossref, and override only fields that need to be customized (e.g., booktile and author in nguyen2021gentreec). Entries from the second part also contain additional fields and information such as url and acceptance rate.

Now all I need to do is use cite the keys in the second part in my main TeX files, e.g., calling \fullcite{nguyen2021gentreec} will display the nguyen2021gentree standard entry in but with customized author and book title, and the new information on url and acceptance rates. For example, the following

\begin{itemize}
\item \fullcite{nguyen2021gentreec}
\end{itemize}

will display:

• KimHao Nguyen\(^1\) and ThanhVu Nguyen. “GenTree: Using decision trees to learn interactions for configurable software”. In: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). IEEE. 2021, pp. 1598–1609. url: https://dynaroars.github.io/pubs/nguyen2021gentree.pdf. acceptance rate 22%

Of course, we can add other customizations like changing color of authors and other fancy stuff by additing LaTeX commands to the entry like above (e.g., \textbf{...}). For example, instead of having a separate URL field, you might want directly link the title to the file like this

@inproceedings{nguyen2021gentreec,
crossref = {nguyen2021gentree},
title={\href{https://dynaroars.github.io/pubs/nguyen2021gentree.pdf}{GenTree: Using decision trees to learn interactions for configurable software}},
author={Nguyen$^1$, KimHao and Nguyen, ThanhVu},
booktitle=ICSE,
addendum={acceptance rate 22\%}
}

A note on naming convention: I simply append the letter c to the keys to indicate customized bib entries. I also use the Google Scholar naming convention (LastnameYearFirstWordInTitle) to manage my bib entries and pdf files.

I use the enumitem package to itemize/enumerate and reference things with releveant prefixes (e.g., conference papers with C and journals paper with J, e.g., My undergraduate freshman student, KimHao, got a full research paper at ICSE'21 [C1])

  % Conference paper list
  \begin{enumerate}[label=C\arabic*]
    \item \label{nguyen2021gentree} \fullcite{nguyen2021gentreec}
  \end{enumarate}

  % Journal paper list
  \begin{enumerate}[label=J\arabic*]
    \item \label{le2020dynamite} \fullcite{le2020dynamitec}
  \end{enumarate}

% referering to a paper
My undergraduate freshman student, KimHao, got a full research paper at ICSE'21~\ref{nguyen2021gentree}.

Other than the \coe, \notcoe, \coeite macros above, I have several more macros to make things easier. I try not to use too many macros to keep things simple. One macros that I use often for listing publication entries is

\newcommand{\mypubc}[2]{\item \label{#1} \fullcite{#1c}\coe{, contribution #2}}   %label,contribution percentage (CoE only)

This allows me to not having to type

\item \label{nguyen2021gentree} \fullcite{nguyen2021gentreec}

like above. Instead, I can just type

\mypubc{nguyen2021gentree}{50\%}

The last argument #2 is an additional information that only appears in the CoE version (to show how much you contribute in a paper, 50% in this example).