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I'm getting natbib error: 

Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.

The 'help' says

Check the bibliography entries for non-compliant syntax, or select author-year Bibtex style e.g. plainnat.

Can someone point out the error in my ways because apalike is an author-year style citation, right?

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[authoryear,square]{natbib}

\begin{document}
\section{Intro}
some text \citep{citekey1} and \citet{citekey2}
\section{Methods}
\bibliography{$HOME/Dropbox/Reference_Library/library}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}    

\end{document}
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And I can add that the same error occurs with different bibliographic styles. Although strangely enough, when I used jponew from here it worked flawlessly the first time but not subsequently – Dominik Apr 21 '12 at 5:46
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I don't get any error (I just used one bib database of mine). – egreg Apr 21 '12 at 8:56
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Two ideas: try deleting the .bbl auxiliary file and reprocess your document; if that doesn't help, build a minimal .bib file that reproduces the error and add it to your question. – Gonzalo Medina Apr 21 '12 at 13:25
thank Gonzalo. It seems to work now. I actually didn't realize that "Trash Aux Files" in TexShop wouldn't delete the .bbl along with the .aux. I hope I don't have to do that regularly. – Dominik Apr 21 '12 at 16:30

closed as too localized by lockstep, Joseph Wright♦ Apr 22 '12 at 10:50

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