{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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BibTeX natbib with super does not allow using occasional \citet

I am using natbib with superscript numbered citations as follows: \usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib} It works great when I have the case This is a reference~\cite{author1999}. My ...
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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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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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Extraneous space inserted before citealp command

I am defining a citation (using the citealp) command and using it like this: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[super]{natbib} \setcitestyle{square,citesep={; }} ...
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Bibtex/natbib: how can you print same bibliography twice?

I want to compile my document with in the end a list of all my cited sources: 'references', but also a list of 'recommended readings', so a re-print of the same bibliography that outputs ALL sources ...
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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 \citet style: move optional argument outside bracket

I am trying to use bibtex+natbib to deal with the citations in my thesis. Some citations are of the style \citet{author_year} and work as expected. However, when I use \citet[pXX]{author_year}, then ...
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How to hyperlink name part in \citet using natbib numerical and hyperref

I am using natbib and unsrtnat style for numerical citation with hyperref package. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[square, super, sort]{natbib} \usepackage[dvips, bookmarks, ...
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How to set the number of the first citation?

I am using BibTeX and natbib for my citations. In the bibliography the first entry usually starts with [1]. Now I would like to shift all the numbers in the bibliography and text by a certain offset, ...
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APA conform \bibentry in document's body using natbib

I would like to cite some bibentries in full text in the body of my document. @Gonzalo Medina provided a solution to an almost identical problem which is (marginally modified) shown below. ...
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Implementing \bibhang in multibib

I have been using moderncv as a template for several years, but I am now trying to solve a problem that has long bothered me: being able to use \bibhang in my list of publications. The moderncv ...
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Natbib and bibhang don't get along with numbers or super

I am using natbib.sty chicago.bst as my bibtex style sheets. My natbib call looks like \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress,super]{natbib} when I try to change the hanging indent in my ...
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hyperref with the backref=page option

I encountered an issue when using the backref=page option of the hyperref package together with the natbib package with the options square,sort&compress,numbers. If the natbib package compresses a ...
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How to add URL access date to MLA or APA

I'm currently using the mla-good.bst file for natbib (available as mla-good.bst.zip), but I suppose I don't really care if I use APA or MLA, so I may switch later. The problem I am having is that I ...
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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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Using natbib with agsm

I am using natbib and agsm for harvard style referencing. My related code is \usepackage{natbib} \bibliographystyle{agsm} Then I am using \citep{} for citations. My problem is that in text I am ...
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natbib bst file with merge functionality

According to the documentation citations can be merged in natbib (several citations appear as one item in the bibliography). The different citations should be separated by semicolons, if the ...
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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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Hyperlinking page numbers and possessive in natbib

I am using natbib for citations and often have to reference specific page numbers of sources, and reference sources in the possessive. I am using hyperref for internal hyperlinks and I have not ...
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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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Cite a reference with the initials of the authors

How do I cite references such that instead of appearing a number in the citation, the initials of the authors appears using natbib? For example, if I have this reference "[JRP] Jordan, M., Rodman, ...
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Redefining the citation macro temporarily.

I'm new to latex, but it seems you can temporarily redefine some commands? The problem I have is that normally the citation is (SMITH, 2000). But at times, I'd like to have Smith (2000) instead. ...
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Issue with Springer spbasic

I'm using natbib for an article to be published in a Springer journal. These are their official TeX/bibtex styles, which include a tex template and some bibtex/natbib styles. If I use ...
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Natbib and makebst: For three authors, natbib is truncating citations [closed]

I'm using natbib, and a .bst file generated by me with latex makebst. This .bst only puts et al. if citation has more than three authors. \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[round]{natbib} ...
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Can't get Natbib package to work

I'm trying to create a bibliography. I'd like it so that I can write with the Harvard style: "..bla bla bla bla bla (Bloggs, 2012). Bla bla bla..." in the main body of the text, with something like ...
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How to define the bibliography style with 4 letters author, a gap and the two numbers of the year [closed]

How can I make the reference list as: 4 letters a gap and the two numbers of the year, [Taja 00a] E. Tajahuerce and B. Javidi, "Encrypting three-dimensional information with ...
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Can I cite something while specifying exactly what text will appear at that place?

First up, I'm using natbib. I'm trying implement a citation style (Thankfully only a few citations, so I'm happy to work things by hand) that is essentially of the following form: At the point of ...
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Truncation of “year” field in author-year citations using Natbib

I use the natbib package (with the default authoryear option) and the apalike bibliography style for bibliographies. I would like to cite a forthcoming paper in such a way that "forthcoming" or "to ...
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How to eliminate the space between multiple numeric citations when using citep and natbib?

I have a document that is using natbib via the following usepackage command: \usepackage[numbers,square,comma,sort&compress]{natbib} When I cite multiple papers using the citep command, I get ...
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Is there a way to remove the period from “et al.” in citations and the bibliography when using natbib?

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but while I've been able to resolve some of my queries from this resource, I can't seem to find an answer to this one. I have my own preferred ...
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How can I cite one ref in another reference?

I would like to know how can I make a citation like this: (autor1, 2000 in autor2, 2010) Is it possible in LaTeX without changing the format of all other citations?
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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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Prevent ibid tracking in natbib

I want to prevent natbib from replacing a list of author names by a long dash, which is the default behavior for citations with the same authors. Why? Because I'm using \bibentry to place full ...
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\citeyear{} omits trailing character for citations from same date

Bug in biblatex 2.2 or older Well, I have this document: \documentclass[11pt]{scrreprt} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} ...
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Using different aliases for textual and parenthetical citations in natbib

I need to define distinct aliases in textual and parenthetical citations for the same reference. For example, I would like \citetalias{Miller2012} to result in "Miller et al. [2012, Paper 1]", while ...
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Use citeauthor with a bibliography style other than plainnat

I am trying to use \citeauthor from the natbib package with a bibliography style that is provided by a journal. Is this possible? I looked at plainnat.bst, but I didn't see any instances of ...
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Modify list of authors (`format.names` problem)

I am using natbib and started with apa-good.bst and was able to make minor modifications; for example use full-name instead of abbreviated :) But even after reading several tutorials on the "unnamed ...
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Use natbib with alpha style

Is it possible to use natbib together with the alpha style? It doesn't seem to be supported directly in the natbib package. What I mean is that there is no specific alpha-like natbib style, and if I ...
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Upper case author names for BST file (based on APA)

I have created a .bst file using makebst. It is based on the APA style. I have compared the .bst file to other bst files, and trying unsuccessfully to put the authors in the bibliography in capitals. ...
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Strange interaction between natbib and algorithm2e

Here's a minimal example. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{titlesec} \usepackage{algorithm2e} \usepackage{natbib} \begin{document} \bibliographystyle{plainnat} \begin{thebibliography}{1} ...
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How can I get capital Angstrom symbol to appear in bibliography (using .bib file and natbib)?

I have search all around but cannot seem to find the solution for getting a capital angstrom symbol (an "A" with a small circle above it) to appear in the bibliography of my dissertation. Instead, it ...
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Line breaking (or hyphenation?) of references in apalike

This is a problem I encountered some time ago and I never could solve it: how can you achieve correct line-breaking or hyphenation when citing references with the apalike style? Here is an example: ...
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Change automatically generated Text in sources with natbib

In my source directory of the thesis I am currently working on, I have got a masters's thesis as one source. As type for this source I chose Master thesis and now Latex always writes "master's thesis" ...
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biblatex - postcite as subscript

I've defined the command \newcommand{\mycite}[2][]{\autocite{#2} #1} which allows me to combine a superscripted citation with a parenthetical page reference: Cf. Sloterdijk1 (pp. 84–85). ✓ This ...
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insert URL in reference; change italic for volume no. to upright; get a full author name, chapter book reference

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{natbib} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{lscape} \usepackage{dcolumn} ...
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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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Use alternate cite keys depending on document version

My biggest enemy is the page limit. I use short versions of my BibTeX entries in order to keep the list of references short. I now have a situation where I include the file in the journal article and ...
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Get authoryear citation using Natbib

I would like to have a citation to give the author(s)'s abbreviated name(s) and the year of publication of the citation, in other words if the citation is by Alex Hock, Tom Geek in 2009 then the cited ...
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Citing a Reprint of an Article in BibTeX

How do I cite a reprint of a given article? I want to cite the postscript of Lewis's Counterpart Theory & QML which only appears in his Philosophical Paper vol. 1. I have the info in my bibtex ...
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Citation alias with multibib and natbib

I need a bibliography that presents citation as (Surname, year), for which I am using natbib, and that allows two different bibliographies at the end of the document, for which I am using multibib. ...

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