{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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\citenum with square brackets
I am using the superscript citation style and sometimes in the text I need to print the citation number is square brackets like [6]. I read I could use \citenum but [\citenum{myref}] leaves some big ...
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Natbib package error? Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations
I'm trying to write an article for a journal using it's LaTeX class and there seems to be an issue with the bibliography.
I'm getting the following error message:
Package natbib Error: ...
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question marks instead of citations / extended problem
I am having trouble with generating references. For some citations instead of authors names the file generates question marks. I tried the suggested found in this forum and already I am aware for the ...
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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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Is it possible to italicize journal names and book titles through the .bst file?
I am working on an article for a Springer journal, and the specifications for manuscripts clearly ask to italicize all journal names and book titles. Doing it manually feels stupid, so I wonder if ...
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Set natbib options after loading natbib package
Is it possible to set (or change) the natbib package options after its loading (i.e. after the line \usepackage{natbib})?
The reason I need it is that I'm using a LaTeX style from a journal and it ...
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Combining citations for two different sets of authors with Natbib when they share a common lead author
I use natbib and bibtex. I have 2 different articles as follows:
Article 1- Written by authors A, B, C, and D in year 2000.
Article 2- Written by authors A, C, E, and G in year 2003.
I want to ...
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Harvard style citations with numbered bibliography [closed]
I have exactly the same question as here:
Natbib + BibTeX: How can you show the bibliography in order of appearance AND numbered?
i.e. I want Harvard-style citations in the text but just to add ...
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How to get () instead of [] in bibliography list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to use 1. (number followed by dot) format instead of [1] format in bibliography
I would like to use round parentheses () instead of square brackets [] for citations ...
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Redefine \defcitealias{key}{text} to include optional arguments?
Among a hundred or so citations in my thesis only one misbehaves. It is a book with four authors, say Abraham, Barminton, Cetralini and Durman (2008), that never appears as Abraham et al (2008) --- ...
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Fine tuning natbib for agsm bibliography style, and adding links
Lovely day. I am quite new to LaTeX but picking things up fast. One area which is confusing me greatly is getting my bibliography to work just how I like it.
I have settled on natbib with agsm style ...
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Modifying natbib \citep
I need to use a "modified Harvard" citation style for one of my papers, in which the citation should look like
(Jones, 1990:99)
where the author is Jones, the year is 1990 and the page is 99.
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BibTeX Warning----empty title
I'm trying to compile my bib references with natbib and \bibliographystyle{nature}. To my uttermost surprise BibTeX reports that some of the entries have an empty title, while IMHO the title is not ...
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biblatex: only use ibid in certain situations
biblatex has the option of using "ibid" in citations with the authoryear-ibid option. With this option activated, my pdf output contains both:
(I) (ibid.); and
(II) John (ibid).
I would like to ...
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how to use citation in references [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Citation in bibliography when having multiple authors
I'm using bibtex for writing references with natbib package. If I use \citet command I get something like Green et ...
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Superscript page numbers with natbib
I'm with an annoying problem with natbib. When the super parameter is used, the citation happily goes superscript but the page or chapter number doesn't.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers, ...
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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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Citing a Web Page with no author
For my thesis, I need to cite a lot of web-sources with no specific author. I'd like them to appear in the bibliography in the following format
<title> <year>, accessed <date ...
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Contents of title field “all lowercase” for BibTeX entry?
Online resources like this:
@MISC{Google:AppEngine:Datastore:Java:API,
author = {Google},
year = {2012},
month = "April",
title = {Google App Engine Datastore Java API},
url = ...
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Natbib + BibTeX: How can you show the bibliography in order of appearance AND numbered?
I'm trying to numerate the references list but having them ordered in order of appearance. I can't find how to do that anywhere.
The code is, more or less, like this
\usepackage[round, sort, ...
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Citations with no date, e.g. (Aristotle n.d.)
I need to cite a work from antiquity that has no known date, using natbib and author-year citations. The best suggestion I've found is to write the citation using "n.d." (no date) for the year of ...
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Citations with no bibliography at the end
How do you produce a document with citations (\citep, \citet) working properly in the paper but without a bibliography at the end?
I've come up with one solution that is bad because it breaks my ...
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Alphabetic order in bibliography with natbib package and author-less entries
i'm new, so I hope to do everything correctly :D
My question is fairly simple:
I've the natbib package loaded in a document, and some bibliography entries have no author. Those entries are put at ...
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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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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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Conflict with Natbib [closed]
I am currently writing my thesis and I've ran into a problem while increasing the complexity of the packages I needed to use. I was originally using the \cite{} macro to do all the references but I ...
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book title abbreviation in references
I'm writing my PhD in philosophy with LaTeX (using TeXshop and Bibdesk on a Mac) and I have a question:
I use the work of one philosopher frequently, so I introduce a list of abbreviations in the ...
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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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author-year and footnote citations in biblatex
I use natbib and switching to biblatex in order to produce documents that can be converted with relative ease between author-date citations with a reference list and the "everything in footnotes" ...
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Natbib citations do not show the full author name
I am using the ucthesis class with natbib package. None of the \cite, \citet and \citep commands, show the full author name. They just show the very last part of the author's name in the bib file
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How to suppress insertion of letter labels after year for references from the same year
I hope this is a simple question, but I've been googling it all evening and haven't made much progress. I am currently working on converting my CV to LaTeX (which is going quite well), but I've come ...
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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. ...
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author order in plainnat
I typed in the preamble
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{cite}
\newcommand{\bibfont}{times}
Then at the end
\bibliography{mybibfile}{}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\nocite{*}
In bib file I ...
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Add Retrieved-on-date field, using natbib and agsm
For my bibliography I am using natbib package with agsm style using following commands
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
Question:
How Can I insert "Retrieved” or “Last accessed with my ...
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natbib does not properly show author-year
I imported natbib properly:
\usepackage{natbib}
Now, when citing in the parenthetical style:
\citep[p. 12]{MyKey}
, where I am sure that my key exists and the author and year are set, in the pdf ...
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How can i have custom bibliography style
My university is following the following format for the bibliography:
Qamar, R., Ayub, Q., Mohyuddin, A., Helgason, A., Mazhar, K.,
Mansoor, A., Zerjal, T., Tyler-Smith, C. & Mehdi, S.Q. ...
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Cannot see the .bib file contents
I'm realty new at using LaTeX. But I have an problem getting an .bib file to show in my output:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
...
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Putting \citep and \citep* together
I'm using BibTeX and natbib and trying to make a single \citep block where two entries are expanded (i.e. I would cite them individually with \citep*) and one entry is not. That is, the desired ...
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Natbib setcitestyle causes “undefined control sequence error”
The following test code works if I comment out the \setcitestyle line. If I don't it throws a "undefined control sequence error." What's wrong? (I'm using the MacTeX-2011 distribution.)
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Problem in bibtex when using authordate1 bibliography style
I need to use the "authordate1" style in my thesis. When I compile, it always shows a lot of errors from bibtex.
My bibtex file is:
@Book{ Card:1983:PHI:578027,
author = "Stuart K. Card and ...
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Custom bibliography style (natbib like) with biblatex
I have just switched from natbib to biblatex, and I am trying to restore some of the previous layouts. I have this import now:
\usepackage[natbib=true,style=verbose-ibid,isbn=false]{biblatex}
which ...
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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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Disable compression of author-year citations in natbib
I would like to disable the compression of author-year citations in natbib. For example, the following source code generates the output "[Miller, 2001, 2002]":
\documentclass{article}
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Natbib of DOI with bad characters
I have a BibTeX file with the following entry:
@article{Garbrecht1998,
title={The treatment of flat areas and depressions in automated drainage analysis of raster digital elevation models},
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How to cite two references and include their pages with natbib?
\cite[p.~11]{Author1:2003a}
This inserts the number of page only for one author like "(Author1, 2003, p. 11)"
However, I would like something like "(Author1, 2003, p. 11, Author2, 2003, p. 22)"
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\citetitle and \citeeditor using the natbib & hyperref packages
I am very much committed to the natbib package, but still want to cite different fields of my bibliography items. For this I am using this code found in a google forum.
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Formatting back references in bibliography
I would like to change the way the back references are shown in the bibliography, such that they are all shown within parentheses. So I would like to see
(page x, y, z)
after my bibitems. This ...
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How do I use “John et. al. 1990 ” citation for more than two authors?
I am trying to use natbib for citation. Whenever I am trying to use more than two authors for citation instead of using "et. al. " , citation becomes number format instead of author year citation.
I ...
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No hyper refs from citation to bibliography using BiBTeX, hyperref and harvard
I am trying to get internal hyperrefs from citation to the bibliography page.
I am using BiBTeX, the harvard package, the hyperref package with optional [hidelinks].
The latter works fine to me on the ...
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natbib authoryear error [closed]
I'm getting natbib error:
Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.
The 'help' says
Check the bibliography entries for non-compliant syntax, or select author-year Bibtex style ...
