Extract authors name from a bibtex entry

Question

I have a bibtex list of references and i would like to get the authors' names from a specific entry in my .bib file. Is there a command for that?

Answer 1

You could use the natbib package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{docuemnt}

\citeauthor{smith90}

\bibliography{bibliography.bib}
\end{document}

See here: http://merkel.zoneo.net/Latex/natbib.php