Problem with bibliography in Harvard style

Question

I am trying to input Harvard style bibliography in my master thesis but I cant do it. In the pdf file, I see the references but either they do not have the names at all, but they have the title of the book the publisher and the year or they are not placed in the appropriate position or either the url that I have inserted is not recognised. I am using a different file (Dissertation.bib):

@InBook{Renewal,
ALTauthor = {Breuer, L. and Baum, D.},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {An Introduction to Queueing Theory and Matrix-Analytic Methods},
chapter = {6},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2005},
OPTkey = {•},
OPTvolume = {•},
OPTnumber = {•},
OPTseries = {•},
OPTtype = {•},
OPTaddress = {•},
OPTedition = {•},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTpages = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}

[1] An Introduction to Queueing Theory and Matrix-Analytic Methods, chap- ter 6. Springer, 2005.

In the main program of my dissertation I have:

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Dissertation}
\end{document}

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Your bibliography file entry should be simply

@InBook{Renewal,
  author = {Breuer, L. and Baum, D.},
  title = {An Introduction to Queueing Theory and Matrix-Analytic Methods},
  chapter = 6,
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = 2005,
}

All prefixes ALT and OPT should be removed. They are inserted by bibtex-mode in emacs and can be removed in one fell swoop (in emacs) by C-c C-c to 'clean' the bibtex entry. Also, in your posted code, the fields such as key should not have a dot as argument; it is best to remove these lines.

For @InBook you should either have an author or an editor field, but not both; this is what the ALT prefixes are trying to tell you. A minimal plain file making this work is

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\cite{Renewal}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Dissertation}
\end{document}

Now modify this following the instructions of How do I use the Harvard citation style? to invoke a Harvard like style.

Answer 2

Not really an answer but too long for a coment. Just use the following MWE to show us your problem. It includes a bib file and loads package natbib.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}     % creates bib file
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@booklet{mwe,
  author      = {{S}charrer, {M}artin},
  year        = {2012},
  title       = {The mwe-Package},
  edition     = {0.3},
  language    = {english},
  lastchecked = {2012-07-12},
  url         = {http://mirror.ctan.org/pkg/mwe},
  note        = {macros/latex/contrib/mwe}
}
@Book{Renewal,
  author = {Breuer, L. and Baum, D.},
  title = {An Introduction to Queueing Theory and Matrix-Analytic Methods},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = 2005,
}
@booklet{Poisson, 
  author = {Virtamo, J.}, 
  title  = {Queueing Theory / Poisson process}, 
  year   = {2007}, 
  url    = {netlab.tkk.fi/opetus/s38143/luennot/E_poisson.pdf}, 
}
\end{filecontents}


\documentclass[a5paper]{article}

\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}  % \citep{}, \citet{}
\usepackage[%
  hidelinks  % to make links not clickable 
]{hyperref}         % url pretty printing

\begin{document}
\section{First section}

Minimal Working Example MWE.

citations: \cite{Renewal}, \cite{Poisson}, \citep{mwe}, \citet{mwe}, \citep*{mwe}. 

\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}  % abbrvnat plainnat
\bibliography{\jobname}       % name of your .bib file here
\end{document}

Package filecontents is used to keep bib file and tex code in one MWE.