The journal publisher has certain demands for citation and references which I have to fulfill. Following are the demands:
All citations in text should refer to: 1. Upto two authors: Both authors last name without initials {comma} year of publication. 2. More than two authors: First author's last name followed by et al. {comma} year of publication.
All references: References should be sorted alphabetically and then chronologically. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c' etc. placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication: Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2010. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59.
Reference to a book: Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.
My efforts:
I tried to use biblatex
for the first time since I read that it has more options for customization. I keep getting errors of the form
command ---- already defined
for commands \bibhand, \c@author, \citename, \bibfont, \Citeauthor
I investigated the .cls
file and found that it uses natbib
package by including the line: \RequirePackage[\@biboptions]{natbib}
. I tried with natbib
package by including the following line:
\usepackage[square,sort,comma,numbers]{natbib}
It gave me an error, Option clash for package natbib
. I have no clue what else to do. Could somebody guide me as to how I should generate the required reference and citation styles?
Note: I would preferably not change the .cls
file since it is provided by publishers, but I can try out such solutions. The source for above text is: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/medical-image-analysis/1361-8415/guide-for-authors#68000
Update: I commented out the line in .cls file which loads natbib. Now problem with natbib is solved. I am trying to get desired results with natbib