How can I cite three papers of different years, by one author? e.g. Smith(1990, 1995, 2001)

Question

I'm pretty new to LaTeX and BibTeX so I apologise in advance if I'm missing information or this seems like it should be simple!

I have three papers by one author which I would like to cite in the text such as "

as specified by Smith (1990, 1995, 2001)

but have as three separate references in the bibliography.

Is there a way to do this? I am using the ametsoc bibliography style at the moment, and can't seem to find a solution other than citing it as [Smith(1990), Smith(1995, Smith(2001)].

Answer 1

Assuming you've loaded a citation management package such as natbib with a command such as

\usepackage{natbib}

and assuming further the three entries have been given the "keys" smith:1990, smith:1995, and smith:2001, you could issue the command

\cite{smith:1990, smith:2001, smith:1995} % note: entries needn't be sorted chronologically

to generate a citation of the form

Smith (1990, 1995, 2001)

The natbib package will sort the arguments of the \cite command chronologically.

(If you were using the harvard citation management package, you'd type \citeasnoun{smith:1990, smith:2001, smith:1995} to get the same result.)