Springer Journal Citation Bibliography weird issue

Question

I am preparing a draft (with twocolumn as required) in latex for submission to the International Journal of Computer Vision using the template available here.

In the "Instructions for authors" page, "References" section here, it says

Citation

Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
This effect has been widely studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al. 1999).
...

Reference List
...

Journal article
Harris, M., Karper, E., Stacks, G., Hoffman, D., DeNiro, R., Cruz, P., et al. (2001). Writing labs and the Hollywood connection. Journal of Film Writing, 44(3), 213–245. ...

However, if I try to achieve the above using their template even with a simple example like below:

---

sample.tex:

\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3} 
\smartqed  
\begin{document}

Now, apple is a tasty fruit \cite{bkey1,bkey2}.

\bibliographystyle{spbasic}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}

refs.bib:

@Article{bkey1,
  author  = {Author1},
  title   = {Title1},
  journal = {Journal1},
  year    = {2016},
}

@Article{bkey2,
  author  = {Author2},
  title   = {Title2},
  journal = {Journal2},
  year    = {2017},
}

---

I get this which is far from what the journal asks:

Issues:

1. Parentheses at citations are not coming as asked by the journal.
2. The citation gets through the end of the first column to the second column without a line-break.
3. The references section is also far from what is asked.

Answer 1

The spbasic bibliography style is designed to be used with natbib. So load natbib and then use \citet for Author (year) citations and \citep for (Author, year) citations.

\documentclass[]{svjour3}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}

@book{Knuth1984texbook,
    Author = {Knuth, D.E.},
    Publisher = {Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts,},
    Title = {The TEXbook, volume A of Computers and typesetting},
    Year = {1984}}

@book{Chomsky1965,
    Address = {Cambridge Mass.},
    Author = {Noam Chomsky},
    Publisher = {{MIT} Press},
    Title = {Aspects of the Theory of Syntax},
    Year = {1965}}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{spbasic}



\begin{document}
\citet[p.4]{Knuth1984texbook} shows that.  Also found here: \citep[p.5]{Chomsky1965} 
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}