{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 vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib
I've heard of many different bibliography-related packages/platforms/?. What's the difference between the following, which is good for what tasks, advantages/disadvantages, which one is the most ...
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How to get DOI links in bibliography
I would like to add to all my bibliography items a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) link or a link to a download location.
How can I do this with the natbib / BibTeX / hyperref combination? Currently ...
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Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations
I have a basic tex file and a bibliography which is exported from Mendeley
However, when I want to cite in the author-year style, I get the error:
Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible ...
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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, ...
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Beamer and Natbib
I'm making a beamer presentation and I'd like to use natbib because of its \citet and that it recognizes URLs. However, when I try to compile it, while doing the third PDFLaTeX pass, there appear this ...
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Keep bibliography entry on one page
I'm using BibTeX and natbib. I have a number of entries in the reference section that start at the bottom of a page and continue on the next e.g. at the bottom of a page I have
Some Author Name, ...
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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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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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URL of cited web site in bibliography
I am using natbib und the chicago style as bibliography style.
I am trying to cite a web site, but in the bibliography the URL (given in the BibTeX entry) is not printed.
Is there a simple solution ...
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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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How to force hyperref to reference only \cite and not \citeauthor or \citeyear?
I would like hyperref to make links only when I use \cite and not with \citeyear and \citeauthor. Here is an example :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
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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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Bibtex in-text citation using “et al.” How do you insert 's to indicate possession?
I'm citing an in-text reference using natbib and a Harvard-style. The way I've constructed the sentence indicates possession, for example:
Smith et al.'s (2009) recent study ...
What I get when ...
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Reduce natbib bibliography to one line
I would like my references to look like
Foo et al. 2008, Nature, 100, 200 •
Bar & Baz et al. 2010, Science, 300,
400 • Einstein, 1905, New Scientist,
5, 6
where "•" is perhaps some ...
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natbib and hyperref for (Author, Year) style produces two links
I am using the bioinfo style with natbib and hyperref, using the (Author, Year) style citations. pdflatex produces two link boxes for each citation: one for the Author and one of the Year. I would ...
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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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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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Space after et al. too big
I have a document as
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{,}{a}{}{;}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\NAT@nmfmt}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
According to ...
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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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Is it possible to load biblatex with a class that has already loaded natbib?
A while ago I asked a meta question on how big a question can be. I was wondering in particular about breaking open REVTeX and reorganising the goo within to replace the natbib bits with bits that ...
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Can I use natbib in beamer, but omit the bibliography? [duplicate]
Can I call references from my .bib file, but not put a huge bibliography at the end of my presentation? Or at least hide it in a bunch of slides that don't display?
I tend to think in terms of my ...
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natbib in a different language?
I like using natbib for my author-year-style citations, but since I mainly write in swedish it would be nice if mine bibliography would be in swedish as well.
Can natbib be persuaded to speak in ...
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How do I make a bibtex style file compatible with natbib author citations
I'm trying to convert my manuscript to PloS Comp Bio style. They provide a BibTeX style file. This works fine for inline citations with \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib} (i.e. ...
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Why do “in prep” papers behave differently from “year'd” ones?
Someone asked me to troubleshoot a LaTeX+BibTeX document. The problem, I've found, boils down to an abuse of the author-year system in the citations in the following way:
@article{W1,
author = ...
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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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How to hyperlink only the year part when using natbib and hyperref
I am using the natbib and hyperref packages:
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[pagebackref=true, plainpages=false, bookmarks, bookmarksnumbered,
colorlinks, linktocpage=true, linkcolor=blue, ...
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Natbib author-year citation style in the tufte-book class
I'm using the tufte-book class and I like it so much!
However, I'd like to have the references in the natbib-way, so that I
can use both textual (\citep) and parenthetical (\citep) citations.
I ...
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How to get two column references with author-year style
Is there a way to get a two column layout for author-year-citations with a label of "(Wolfram 2002)" in the first column and "Wolfram, S. 2002. A new kind of science. Wolfram Media, Champaign, Ill." ...
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How to cite an online article with hyperlink to its online source in bibliography section [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get DOI links in bibliography
biblatex: Make title hyperlink to doi url (if available)
I use TeXShop, BibDesk and NatBib, and am a beginner with BibDesk and the ...
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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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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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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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Additional Space after Colon in References
I'm printing the references in my document using:
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{D:/economics/dataset}
Here is one example of the generated references.
George J. ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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,
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Problem using \noopsort to sort on 'year' using natbib
In my efforts to familiarise myself with BIBTeX and natbib, I've been playing with the xampl.bib database which is shipped with the TeXLive 2011 distribution. I created a document (using the ...
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A biblatex style that's like plainnat
I want to switch to biblatex but despite the rather minimal changes suggested in some answers to switching from natbib, there's really a lot that seems to need changing. For example, the "In:" needs ...
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Bibtex and Chicago style citations?
In the Chicago Manual of Style citation guidelines I find that one is to quote journal articles and italicize journals, books, and theses. But when I run the code below the output shows the journal ...
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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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Natbib: how to replace the last comma in a citation list with “and”?
Natbib's \citet command currently has the following output when I type \citet{maddison-cct,ridley-comparative}:
Maddison [8], Ridley [13]
Is there another command I did not found, or is there a way ...
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How do I change comma to a colon in in-text reference?
In my preamble I am using:
\bibliographystyle{authordate1}
\usepackage{natbib}
When I make a \cite reference the output is for example:
(Lovell, 1972, p.133)
What would I need to change in ...
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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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multibib and links to bibliography (with hyperref, natbib)?
I'm using the multibib package but cannot get links to work with it and hyperref. Is this combination possible? A sample document follows:
If I add a \usepackage{natbib} in the preamble then links do ...
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Full name and year as BibTeX key
I'd like to reference BibTeX sources with full name and year, e. g. [Adams1979]. Is there an easy way to to this?
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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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Only author's initials in BibTeX natbib using named style
I have a BibTeX file with a mix of entries, some with full author's names and some with just initials. I would like my typeset bibliography to only use initials. Is there a way to do this?
I have the ...
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Bibliography preamble \bibpreamble natbib
I am trying to produce some text after the "References" heading, but before the numbered references themselves. I had read that using the natbib package and the command \bibpreamble{...insert preamble ...
