{citing} is about specific or customized citation commands. For general questions about bibliographies and citations, use {bibliographies}, or preferably the tag for the bibliography packages and/or backend programs you use, e.g., {bibtex}, {natbib}, or {biblatex}.
13
votes
2answers
4k views
Question mark instead of citation number
I've browsed the forums and found a number of posts that have addressed this issue, but none of the solutions seem to work for me. I have the following script that I just copied from the bibtex home ...
19
votes
1answer
5k views
Using BibTeX to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document?
Is there any way to have BibTeX insert a bibliography without having citations in the body of the document itself? Maybe a way to hide the in-text citations, so that BibTeX still sees them and ...
18
votes
3answers
2k views
Citing a range of papers (using numeric keys)?
Is there a way so that, when I cite a range of papers, the output is a range of numbers, instead of a list of numbers? In other words, when I type
... some dummy text here is due to me \cite{me1, ...
60
votes
3answers
2k views
Showing the bibliographic entry in a popup when you hover over the citation key
I thought it would be useful to have bibliographic entries displayed as a tooltip so readers are not interrupted by following hyperlinks or trying to find the Bibliography, so I created the following ...
10
votes
3answers
515 views
Extended draft mode which includes source information for manual print-out to source synchronisation
I'm looking for a kind of extended draft mode which places the source code position of paragraphs, sectioning commands and figures etc. as marginpars or similar in the PDF, so that they appear on a ...
8
votes
3answers
4k views
Biblatex, author-year, square brackets
I need to customize the author-year citation in biblatex for a template at work. Right now biblatex cites like this:
Ruschmeyer u. a. 1995, S. 123
They way I was told it needs to cite is:
...
10
votes
1answer
778 views
biblatex : which style for a footnote once then nothing?
Ok sorry for this not so clear title. I'm having trouble to express & find what seems so simple :s
I'm biblatex and I would like to know which citation style/bibliographical style and/or option I ...
15
votes
1answer
382 views
biblatex: How to omit “p.” at \cite?
I'm using \cite[1]{A01}. The result is
Author 2001, p. 1
The desired result is
Author 2001, 1
How do I achieve that? I'm aware of biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in ...
16
votes
3answers
2k views
hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear
I am using biblatex with the authoryear styles.
So far I've been able to find everything I need easily in the excellent documentation, but I'm stuck on one thing.
With my current settings (below) ...
13
votes
3answers
2k views
Use BibTeX key as the cite key
I tried to use natbib and other attempts but for vain. I would like to produce a cite key which is identical to the BibTeX entry. For example, if I have a BibTeX entry Bt98, then I want \cite{Bt98} to ...
5
votes
1answer
865 views
“Allowing line break at ',' in inline math mode” breaks citations
In answering another question allowing line break at ',' in inline math mode, Stefan Kottwitz suggested two excellent ways to allow line breaks in inline math mode after ,. One way was to use the ...
18
votes
2answers
2k views
Why should I put a ~ before \ref or \cite?
My question is in the title of this post, but extends to other referencing commands like \eqref, \citep, \citet (and the like) as well.
9
votes
1answer
1k views
biblatex - quote in chronological order but bibliography list must be alphabetical order
I want to use more than one type of specification in my bibliography. I want to quote in chronological order but have the bibliography list in alphabetical order.
If I am quoting 2-3 references in ...
5
votes
2answers
105 views
Line break in citation with organization as author
I have the following reference:
@MISC{EX2012,
author = {{S}ingle {A}uthor {O}rganization},
year = {2012},
title = {Example}
}
A citation for this is breaking after "Author", but extending ...
5
votes
2answers
3k views
Bibliography with page numbers
In GKP's Concrete Mathematics, there is a useful and interesting feature I would like to see in more books. The bibliography entries include:
a - the page numbers where the book or article is cited ...
4
votes
3answers
2k views
How to abbreviate journal name in citation
I'm writing my research proposal and my supervisor wants me to abbreviate the journal name (and remove part of the month from the publication date). How can I achieve that?
Edit:
I am using BibTeX ...
17
votes
2answers
669 views
Check if an entry is cited multiple times
I am trying to find out whether it is currently possible to have a test in Biblatex that tests at the very first time an entry is cited whether the same entry will be cited more than once in the ...
13
votes
1answer
2k views
Multiple citations with pages using BibLaTeX
How can I do multiple citations with page numbers using bibLaTeX/biber?
I have tried \cite[2,3,4]{ref1,ref2,ref3,ref4} but it doesn't work.
9
votes
1answer
1k views
How to cite one bibentry in full length in the body text?
I am using the natbib package.
Now I want to have a bibliography entry cited in full length in the text. That should also appear in the bibliography are. For example
Text text...
Mr. ABCD ...
9
votes
2answers
1k views
Author name of \textcite as possessive
When using biblatex I often use \textcite. Sometimes I want to write things like "Smith's (2000) formulation of x is" instead of "Smith (2000) formulates x as". How do I achieve this? Or more ...
11
votes
3answers
1k views
What is the proper way to cite a legal document?
I need to cite some decrees in my essay for philosophy of science class.
I believe it is a common problem, so there should be a standardized way.
Thanx.
7
votes
2answers
913 views
Natbib: merging author(s) with the same name(s)
I defined the following command in my manuscript:
\newcommand{\citesep}[2]{\citeauthor{#1}#2~\cite{#1}}
which allows me to print, for instance, "Knuth and Tarjan's algorithm [16]" using ...
10
votes
1answer
469 views
Cite in the caption of a graphic but not in \listoffigures?
Sometimes I'd like to cite the reference in the caption of a graphic. But I want to avoid that this citation is displayed in the \listoffigures. How can I achieve that?
Fore example with this code:
...
9
votes
2answers
333 views
Macro for formatting names (initials or full name)
I want to write full names of authors in the LaTeX source, but assign different roles to them, and then via macro decide whether to print the full first name or just initials:
In the work of ...
9
votes
1answer
1k views
Displaying short version of author name in citations
I was wondering whether there is any way to change single entries in a bibliography. I want the cite command to give me a short version of this very long entry. I know I could change it manually in ...
7
votes
1answer
217 views
How to get (Reference1; Reference2; see Reference3 for review)?
I'm using natbib package (\usepackage[round,authoryear]{natbib}) and I want something like:
(Buhusi, 2009; see Bueti, 2011 for review)
If I do \citep[see][for review]{Buhusi,Bueti}, I can get,
...
5
votes
2answers
367 views
Can I automatically generate abbreviated citations in Tufte documents after the first occurrence?
In documents using Tufte document classes (tuft-handout or tuft-book) \cite is replaced by a footnote (which appears as a sidenote) corresponding to the full bibliography entry for the cited work. ...
15
votes
2answers
995 views
Possessive cite in biblatex-chicago (authordate)
For my master's thesis I changed my citation package from harvard with bibtex to biblatex-chicago with authordate and bibtex8, primarily because I need babel to translate my bibliography to Norwegian. ...
3
votes
0answers
668 views
How do I get full or abbreviated citations to appear automatically in Tufte footnotes (sidenotes)? [closed]
I'm experimenting with a promising approach to generate generate abbreviated citations in Tufte documents automatically using \cite alone, once a reference has already been used. But I've encounters ...
17
votes
3answers
1k views
What is the difference in citing/referencing with or without tilde?
I've seen examples referencing a table as follows:
Table~\ref{table:overview} shows an overview of all the elements.
What is the use of the tilde in front of \ref or \cite and when do you have to ...
12
votes
3answers
2k views
How do I make LaTeX push long citations to a new line?
When I use the \cite command for my citations, often LaTeX will overflow the margins for my lines, and the text looks pretty bad. How can I make LaTeX push long citations to the next line ...
10
votes
1answer
501 views
biblatex: Handling secondary (“quoted in”) citations
This question and the answer became part of a package:
biblatex-musuos
How can I qoute secondary quotes which I’ve taken form another book.
Example
Jon Doe writes a book an cites Fred Bloggs ...
8
votes
4answers
713 views
How can I automatically abbreviate page ranges in citations (biblatex)
I am using biblatex for my citations, and I was wondering if there was a way to automatically abbreviate the page ranges in citations. (The reason I ask is because I have them all in long-style, and I ...
9
votes
1answer
2k views
Hanging references using \fullcite
I need APA style hanging references using \fullcite. For example
I need \fullcite because I want the reference cited where I want in the document, unlike at the end of the document using \cite.
...
7
votes
1answer
136 views
How to get an “and” before the last element in BibLaTeX's textcite commands?
When using \textcite or \textcites with more than one author in BibLaTeX, the result is not really usable and has to be fixed manually which can hardly be the point of the command:
...
7
votes
3answers
2k views
\renewcommand{\cite} does not work
I'm using \cite a lot in my document, but now I discovered that I really need \citep instead (from natbib). No problem, I thought, just redefine the \cite command:
\renewcommand{\cite}[1]{\citep{#1}}
...
6
votes
2answers
954 views
biblatex, authoryear-icomp: brackets around the year in footnotes
I use biblatex with the cite-style authoryear for footnotes, which results in
Chang et al. 2005, p. 1116.
Faculty guidelines require
Chang et al. (2005), p. 1116.
though.
Which files need ...
2
votes
1answer
331 views
Can I place citations in captions using Tufte?
I'm trying to get Tufte marginal material (citations, footnotes, and captions) to support incorporate citations as they do in the Tufte books. What I'm looking for is the "conversational" style that's ...
8
votes
1answer
244 views
Temporarily disable superscript in citation
I use superscripted citation style by using \setcitestyle{super} in LaTeX preamble, which done the job as I wanted. However, there are several region, in which I need to temporarily disable the ...
8
votes
2answers
1k views
biblatex: Cite commands with the same author prints authors name twice
I'm using biblatex 1.4b, and Biber 0.9. However, I think the problem
is with my settings, not with the versions of those programs.
I'm trying to cite a single author, and produce their name, followed
...
7
votes
2answers
141 views
Biblatex: nested citations with the \textcites command
I'd like to type a citation within the text and another citation inside the parenthesis for the year, something like this:
The work of Author 1 (year; cited by Author 2, year)
For this, I've ...
7
votes
2answers
720 views
Problem Footcite Biblatex
I need some help for using the \footcite command together with Biblatex. I’m using the authoryear style.
According to the guidelines for my thesis, the footnote must have the following structure:
...
6
votes
3answers
5k views
biblatex footcite and footnote
In a document, I am using
\usepackage[style=mla,babel=hyphen,backend=biber]{biblatex}
together with the \footcite command, and everything is perfect. There is a difficulty when I want to include a ...
6
votes
1answer
701 views
Apacite: suppress initials intext?
I am writing a doctoral thesis and I am using APAcite to set the references in APA (American Psychological Association) format. Mostly this has worked perfectly fine, but I would like to suppress the ...
4
votes
3answers
994 views
How to cite authors in small cap with \citet?
I followed Natbib reference sheet and \citet works as expected. I would like the author's name to appear in small caps, how can I do that?
I guess I should do:
Define \citenumfont to be a font ...
3
votes
1answer
136 views
Use of apacite package with subfiles package or standalone package results in LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble
I want to create a multi-file project for my thesis, in which I use separate files for sections. To be able to compile these separate files I tried using the subfiles package and the standalone ...
2
votes
0answers
2k views
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'author2012' on page 1 undefined on input line 15 [closed]
How do you correct an undefined citation? I've clicked the BibTex option several times to let Latex automatically recognize the new references, but this isn't working.
...
2
votes
3answers
1k views
Why do hyperref and harvard not work together properly?
In my current work, I cannot seem to get the packages harvard and hyperref to work together properly.
A small example:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
...
2
votes
2answers
3k views
Citep only works as cite?
In an ideal situation using natbib and abbrvnat, citations e.g. \citet{Jones2004} and '\citep{Jones2004}' would have given Jones et al. (2004) and (Jones et al., 2004) respectively.
Unfortunately I ...
1
vote
1answer
384 views
Citation in bibliography when having multiple authors
I'm using bibtex for writing references with natbib package. I'd like to ask how to cite more authors. If I use \citet command I get something like Green et al. Is it possible to use some modification ...
