Thank you, this worked:

.. container:: highlighted-refs

   - :ref:`foo` blah blah blah

   - :ref:`bar` blah blah blah

with css 

div.highlighted-refs li a:first-child span.std-ref {
  font-weight: bold;
}

that I added in conf.py via

def setup(app):
    app.add_stylesheet('custom.css')


On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 10:47:40 PM UTC-7, Komiya Takeshi wrote:
>
> How about this?
> li .std-ref {
>     font-style: italic;
> }
>
> Or you can use container directive to specify a particular block
> .. container:: decorated
>
>    * :ref:`hello`
>    * world
>
> And then, you can decorate the hyperlink using CSS:
> .decorated .std-ref {
>     font-style: italic;
> }
>
>
> I think there is no proper way to change styles from markups. Usually, 
> reStructuredText is not good at modifying styles of documents.
>
> Thanks,
> Takeshi KOMIYA
>
> 2016年8月10日水曜日 0時48分29秒 UTC+9 Jason S:
>>
>> OK, thanks... hmm, I don't want to change all references, though, I just 
>> want to make a particular section use boldface terms in a bullet list.
>>
>> On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 8:34:23 PM UTC-7, Komiya Takeshi wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> "Naming Convention" is surrounded by <span class="std std-ref">.
>>> So you can change the style of the references using CSS.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Takeshi KOMIYA
>>>
>>> 2016年8月9日火曜日 4時36分48秒 UTC+9 Jason S:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38837051/formatting-a-sphinx-reference
>>>>
>>>> If I use this RST source:
>>>>
>>>> - :ref:`Naming Convention <naming>` --- we consistently 
>>>>   followed a certain naming convention
>>>>
>>>> then I can get output that looks like this
>>>>
>>>>    -   Naming Convention <http://example.com/naming> — we consistently 
>>>>    followed a certain naming convention
>>>>    
>>>> *but what can I do to make "Naming Convention" boldface*? RST doesn't 
>>>> seem to like the idea of nested formatting directives.
>>>>
>>>

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