{natbib} is a package for bibliographies and citations. It is especially designed for the author-year type citation styles that are common in the natural and social sciences.

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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 ...
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BibTeX, hyperref, natbib and very long (institutional) author names in references [closed]

Edit: having tried to make a MWE the issue I was having has gone away - so please disregard! I'm having trouble with a reference to a work by MIT, I have to cite this as "Massachusetts Institute of ...
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References have disappeared after making small changes

I am using shareLaTeX book to compile a report. Until yesterday my references were working fine, all of a sudden they no longer work. I introduced a few changes yesterday, but when I remove these, the ...
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Change multiple author reference from '&' to 'and' with natbib bibliography

I'd like to change the separation between multiple article/book authors from '&' to 'and' in natbib. eg: @book{lee2009global, title={{Global Marketing Management}}, author={Lee, K. and ...
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Problems with Natbib: strange URL format and urldate not shown

I have a strange problem with natbib. This code @misc{CornellUniversity., author = {{Cornell University}}, title = {Benedict R. O'G. Anderson}, url = ...
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emphasizing “et al.”

I am using a .bst for the bibliography in my thesis; the .bst that I am using, I think, was Chicago style originally. I am also using the natbib package. Currently, when I use citation, "et al." ...
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Thesis paper format and bibliography issues!

I'll try to be as clear as possible. I use texshop 2.47 on my Mac with bibdesk. So far I wrote an article for ACS journal with their package. At the moment I'm working on my PhD thesis. I found this ...
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Change ieetr bibliography style to last name first

I'm using the ieeetr bibliography style for my references and I'm getting initials then last name, how would I change this to last name first? Here is what it looks like at the moment: [1] X. ...
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bibtex - how to have a web link without the url (ideally to have a link on the number) [duplicate]

I have been messing around a bit with different packages - url, hyperref etc. to get urls into my bibliography. Essentially i've got to the point where I have the url - with a clickable weblink over ...
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\citealp putting parentheses in citation inappropriately

I am using WinEdt with MikTeX 2.9 in a Windows 7 environment. I am having issues being able to get text in parentheses working correctly with a citation, specifically that when the document prints to ...
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Citations in separate tex file from bibliography

I'm compiling a thesis where the main TeX file contains all my preamble declarations before including the thesis chapters as individual TeX files. I'd prefer, however, to have a single bibliography ...
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Formatting multiple references containing the same author

I'm using natbib with a custom bibliography style and so would rather not change away from natbib if I can help it. I have one author with two citations and I just want the References section to list ...
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Problem displaying author in citation when using natbib's \citeauthor command

I have problem displaying the author name in citation when using natbib. I wrote This is explained in \citeauthor{lamport94}, and what I get is: , and my entire code is given by: ...
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Getting problem when inserting natbib [duplicate]

Currently, when displaying my references without natbib, it's appearing like [Sin01] and this is how I want it to be. However, to get the et al. function, I'm having to include the natbib and ...
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Possible to change sort order in natbib?

I have played a little with LaTeX lately and I really like it, it makes the document look top professional and makes structuring a report easy. I am currently using it for a big assignment with lots ...
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skipbib without BibLaTeX

Is there any way to use skipbib or equivalent in regular BibTeX with natbib and without using BibLaTeX?
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bibliography: problem with counting entries

I have a problem with my bibliography. I use natbib. I have literatur from the same author in the same year. I have a own Function "DateWithBrackets", see below. And my bibliography looks like ...
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All BibTeX references in each chapter show the same (first) one! [closed]

Writing a thesis, contains multiple chapters. Each chapter has a reference section in the end. Each reference is contained in a BibTeX file. PROBLEM: The reference section of each chapter ...
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\citep in natbib not allowing superscripts [closed]

Before you tell me to read other posts on here, I have :P I find that with: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb} ...
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Natbib giving single character instead of author-year

I am using MiKTeX 2.9/TeXmaker. When I cite(\citep{}) with the natbib package, I get random characters e.g [a],[x] etc, instead of e.g [John1998]. I ran PdfLatex->Bibtex->Pdflatex->Pdflatex, ...
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Year in bibliography with brackets

i want in my bibliography the year within brackets. How can I customize my style? I think I have to change the FUNCTION {format.date}, but how? regards ...
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Why does natbib conflict with sbc.bst?

I'm always loading the package sbc-template. When I load natbib and use bibliography style apalike, no problem; when I use style sbc instead, compilation crashes. How to fix this? Apalike is pretty OK ...
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How to get APS BibTeX style file to work

I just started to use BibTeX and have found it amazingly convenient. So far I have tried to use the style file h-physrev.bst from arXiv, and copied the BibTeX information directly from the site of ...
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How to change font size of year in natbib's author-year citations?

I am using LaTeX with Natbib, and would like to change the fonts for my in-line, author-date citations (but not in the bibliography itself). I have found ways to change the font of the author's name ...
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longnamesfirst in biblatex [duplicate]

I am preparing a manuscript with LaTeX and for the citations the journal has the following requirement for references with three authors: On first citation use all authors' names and the year. ...
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Alphabetical order in natbib

I have read questions about this, and people say that it is just to include the natbib package and the plainnat style. For some reason my references will not sort alphabetically. Any help on this ...
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Full reference inline in text [duplicate]

Using natbib, how can I obtain a full reference inline in the body of a document? I need to include the full reference, not just the citation, at the beginning of a chapter.
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How to use lining figures in bibliography item labels?

This is similar to How to change the appeareance of bibliography item labels in amsrefs?, but aiming at standard BibTeX styles. I have a document that uses old style figures in the main text. I also ...
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apacite: How can I use \bibitemsep with natbibapa option?

I'm using the apacite package, trying to format my reference list so that it is single-spaced but with a blank line in between each entry. From the documentation for apacite, it seems that the way to ...
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BibTeX can't find abbrvnat.bst [closed]

I have installed MacTex on my macbook running OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). However, BibTeX is not able to find abbrvnat.bst (see the output of bibtex below). I checked ...
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Why natbib package can not find author?

I have a .bib file as following: %% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk. %% http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ %% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-8) @book{marcu2000theory, ...
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Different styles for \citet and \citep in regards of the “and” or “&” between authors using natbib

Is it possible to use both "and" and "&" using natbib? I've been trying to work it out for a long time now and I just can't seem to figure this one out. All I can manage is to either have "and" or ...
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Question mark shown instead of citation using harvard

I am getting [?] when citing using harvard. If I use \citeasnoun I get the citation. How do I solve this problem. I am using TeXnicCenter with MikTeX 2.9 and installed the harvard package. ...
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How to customize a .bst bibliographic style created with custom-bib for dealing with entries with no year and/or no author

I am using natbib with author-year-like cites style and with a custom references style (a .bst file) that I created with custom-bib. That style file for references is also author-year oriented, of ...
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BibTex/Natbib: References with exactly three authors require all authors on first occurence and first author et al on further occurences

I'm writing a paper for a journal (MNRAS, the UK Royal Astronomical society journal) which requires that when I cite any papers with exactly three authors, I need to give the full author list at the ...
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natbib, et al by more than one author

I've got some problems with my bibliography style Code: \usepackage[square]{natbib} \usepackage[english,ngerman{babel} \begin{document} \chapter{Einleitung} Text..... \citep{Marley2009} ...
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Controlling abbreviation of author names list using natbib

I am using the natbib package with the aspr style. The command \citep{key} prints "(Smith et al., 2011)" if the number of authors is more than 3. How can I change it so that it uses the "et al." ...
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How to make \citet* display full list of authors?

When I am using the natbib package with apalike bibliography style \citet* displays only an abbreviated list of authors, such as Lemarechal et al. (1995). How can I make it display a full list of ...
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Bibliography style like ieeetr

Are there any bibliography styles that supports both ordering as in ieeetr and author-year (ie. John et al.)?
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Is it possible to get unsrt + abbrv bibliography?

Is there a ready made BibTeX bibliography style file that both: (1) prints author names abbreviated (like abbrv) in the references section and (2) sorts references numerically in citation order (like ...
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Two papers that abbreviate to the same Author et al (1999) in text

I have two citations like @ARTICLE{Openshaw1999a, author = {Openshaw, S. and Turton, I. and Macgill, J}, title = {Using the Geographical Analysis Machine to Analyze Limiting Long-term ...
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How do I truncate the author list and substitute et.al?

Can someone please tell me if there is a way to truncate more than 2 authors for a publication and substitute it by et al. instead? I am using bibtex.
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Limiting the number of authors that appear in the bibliography [duplicate]

I am using natbib bibliography style. Some references have multiple authors that take over a page to list in the bibliography. Is there a way to limit the number of authors?
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Is biblatex compatible with RevTeX?

biblatex seems to be not compatible with RevTeX. As RevTeX automatically loads natbib, I load biblatex with the option natbib=true, but still LaTeX compiler complains that lot of commands are already ...
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natbib: modifying citation style for particular source type, while others remain default

I'm using natbib and would like to modify the punctuation style for one particular type of source (classical texts), while punctuation for remaining sources should remain at their default settings. ...
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Reverse numbering of bibitems — moderncv and plainnat

I want to number bibliography items in the reverse order -- with moderncv and plainnat bibliography style. A picture of what I want: Reference: Enrico's answer at: Bibtex reverse numbering I ...
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Natbib sorting and citation order by appearance

I've started writing my thesis using LaTeX (as recommended by the school) and as a complete novice at it, I've been stuck trying to figure out how to change the citation by order of appearance. I'm ...
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Document working with cite package, but not with natbib package

I am trying to use the natbib style in order to cite references by author and year. Using the tex and bib example here I am able to create a pdf file using the cite package. mydocuments.tex ...
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Author-date referencing overridden [closed]

I'm using the natbib package and would like author-date referencing format. I have the following setup in the preamble: \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{harvard} %(also tried ...
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How do I force a particular bibliography style?

I am writing a paper for a journal that enforces the use of the Springer 'splncs03.bst' file for references. I wrote most of the paper with natbib and the use of the \citep and \citet commands so it ...

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