Citations overflowing

Question

I'm having an odd problem with the citations. Whenever I call the, after rendering, I get odd formats like:

[Subramanian et al(2006)Subramanian, Ramamoorthy, Stone, and Kuipers]

It's supposed to say only Subramian et al and the year. And the text is overflowing the paragraph structure (it isn't aligned with the paragraph).

Any idea where could I look into to fix this.

The style used is spbasic.bst.

And I'm giving the input as a ".bib" file

Answer 1

The contents of generated .bbl file show that you're using a natbib compatible bibstyle. Therefore, you should use

\usepackage{natbib}

to get proper result. Further options may be needed, see the document of natbib.