{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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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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how to use citenum without natbib

I was wondering if I can use the \citenum{} command of natbib without actually using it. I prefer using \bibitem{} instead of .bib file. Any idea?
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natbib creates no errors but no output either

I am using natbib as my bibliography style, the strange thing is that when I run my code, I get no errors or warnings what so ever, But I get 0 pages of output! Its really strange, I am sure that the ...
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Customize some (but not all) of the citation keys that appear in the text body? [duplicate]

I'm writing up my PhD thesis and am using natbib (I'm not married to natbib and can switch if I have to). My question is about customizing what I'll call the citation keys, by this I mean the text ...
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BibTeX: Chicago style citation with same first authors

I'm using TexShop (Tex Live 2010) on mac. I'm trying to use built-in Chicago citation style. But I found a bug when I try to cite the articles with the same first author, on the same year, with more ...
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MultiMarkDown and biblatex citations

I'm using Scrivener to produce LaTeX output with MultiMarkDown. MultiMarkDown uses natbib by default, so footnotes look like this code snips: \footnote{~\citep[<prenote>]{<key>}} The ...
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Adding uncited work to natbib bibliography

I'd like to add a reference to my bibliography made with natbib in LaTeX. I've been citing a few different newspapers, but since there is no easy format in natbib for newspapers, I have been citing ...
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natbib: Error when citing paper with similar authors and same year

I get a strange error when I try cite two certain papers in the same document, when I use the natbib package (with numbers option enabled). If I trim the author list or change the year of either ...
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Suppress printing of only \bibentry references with natbib?

This question was basically asked before, but I think that the only answer didn't quite understand the question so I thought I'd try again. I'm writing a paper in which I need to have references show ...
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How to suppress some fields in abbrv.bst

I am using the abbrv style under the natbib package for my bibliography. Is it possible to suppress, e.g., the field "SERIES", in the output? Here is a item in my .bib file: ...
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Plainnat.bst not found and package natbib [closed]

Trying to create a simple document with package natbib but I get the following pdflatex mydocument.tex is fine but with some warnings like Package natbib Warning: Citation ...
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natbib does not show year

I'm using natbib and plainnat as bibliography style. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[round]{natbib} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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natbib: Split Bibliography Into Sections By Entrytype (without using multibib)

What's wrong with multibib? multibib lets me split up my bibliography. But I have to specify manually (by \citeabc or \citedef), which bibliography entry belongs to which section. Also, it's not ...
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Proper way to refer to references in natbib?

I'm using the natbibpackage for managing my references in my latex document. Is it correct to refer to a reference in the following way: A survey can be found in Ref.~\citep{Radke:2005ug} Which is ...
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Editing bst file to add “page” or “pages”

I've got this bst file http://pastebin.com/z6mXByj7 and am using this tex: \documentclass[10pt,oneside,letterpaper,spanish]{book} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[activeacute,spanish]{babel} ...
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Editing bst file to underline title

I could not find an option in makebst that would make the titles of articles be underlined, however, using emphasize in an otherwise correct bst I was able to underline it. Unfortunately this makes ...
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How do I get the author and the year in square brackets?

I have to following problem. I'm working on a presentation. Therefore I need, when I cite a paper or something else, the whole name and year of the paper. Everything went well until now. When I cite ...
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How to get harvard style through “agsm”

I wan't to use harvard style in my paper. I'm using TeXMaker and natbib. I got agsm.bst downloaded. But it's not helping. I'm using these commands \documentclass{article} \usepackage{natbib} ...
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Is natbib included in TeX Live?

I'm extremely new at this. Basically I'm a would-be academic who needs (and therefore wants) to use LaTeX for my professional writing stuffs. This means that the most important thing to me is to be ...
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Multiple items in BibTeX [closed]

I currently have a BibTeX document (mybib.bib) that looks like this: @article{sz70, author={Sunyaev, R. A. and Zel'dovich, Y. B.}, title={Good Stuff}, journal={Comments Astrophys. Space ...
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Putting bibliographies at the end of each chapter

I have a project that requires that separate bibliographies be maintained for each chapter and that the references appear at the end of each chapter. I am using natbib and I know that I should be ...
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\citeauthor* behaves like \citeauthor or \citeyearpar uses square brackets instead of round

I am LaTeX newbie so please bare with me. I would like to have citations in following format: e.g. "Bauer et al. (1988) [1]" so "1st Author et al. (year of publishing) [number in references]". ...
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Natbib cite with abbreviation

I have a webpage I need to cite, whose author is a company (no real person specified). Its full name is Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, abbreviated OASIS. I want ...
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Cite like [1-2] instead of [1, 2]

I'm using natbib package with compress option, which works well in the case [1-3]. However, I hope that [1,2] could also be compressed as [1-2].

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