Questions tagged [natbib]
{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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Different bibstyles for bibentry vs. bibliography
Using natbib, bibentry. I would like if possible to render the bibentries in a different style than that in the Bibliography section in the end.
A particularity with this is that bibentry copies ...
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Getting Natbib to use an Oxford comma
Is there a way to get Natbib to use an Oxford comma when citing multiple papers? I would like to retain the automatic formatting/sorting when using \citet{}. I don't want this to affect the behaviour ...
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biber: WARN - No data sources defined!
At the moment I struggle with creating my bibliography. I always get the message "WARN - No data sources defined!" from Biber.
So what did I try to solve my problem?
I updated Biber, BibLaTeX and ...
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Preview-LaTeX does not work when using natbib (on Emacs 24.5.1, AUCTeX 11.89)
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\begin{document}
$\alpha$
\bibliographystyle{ims}
\bibliography{mybibliography}
\end{document}
Preview-latex does not work with above ...
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Cite author's name using IEEE style
Currently I am using natbib with IEEEtran as the bibliography style.
\usepackage[square,comma,numbers,sort]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
When citing, I want to sometimes refer to the author'...
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Springer Basic Reference Style and natbib options issues
I am quite new to LaTeX but am attempting to use the Springer Nature format available here.
The journal I am submitting to requires that I use sn-basic.bst and have the references in square brackets, ...
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Apalike with \citep
I'm having trouble with using the apalike style together with natbib. The point is to have the possibility to use different types of citations (like \citep, \citet etc. in natbib), and at the same ...
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Is there an alternative to apalike that properly deals with website citations?
I'm using the apalike style suitable for economic papers. This old bibliography style doesn't deal with URLS. An answer provides a trick using the note field in the bibtex entry such as:
Note = "\...
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How to create italic "in press"-year labels for in-text citations by modifying the bibtex style file
I'm looking for a way to add "in press" in italics into my bibtex-style file for publications for which a doi already exists.
As I'm using a Natbib-AuthorYear reference style, I have to add this in ...
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Show only first author in citation call-outs
I am using scrbook and the natbib package. What I basically want to do is that in the reference when using \citep only the last name of the first author and the year should be shown no matter how many ...
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Different citation styles for multiple bibliography
I've a document with multiple bibliography and I'm desperately trying to have different styles for \cite options. I'd like an author-year style for bibliography, while a numeric style is better for ...
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How can I change the language of my natbib bibliography?
I am using the natbib package for my bibliography. For documents in English, everything works fine.
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{tex/bibliography} % the file is called bibliography.bib
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How to cite books published by organizations using natbib
What would be the best way to cite a material published from an organization? I tried using misc, but the .bst file I am using does not accept this, the item disappears from the reference list.
If I ...
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How to add author-year support to a .bst file?
I'm currently trying to format my references according to the DeGruyter Open Computer Science guidelines, and I've made a custom .bst file for this.
However, in my paper, I use natbib's citet a bunch,...
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Can I make citep quote author and number?
I am interested in using natbib and citep to display both the author and a number. For example, that \citep{author} displays (author [1]), rather than [1] in numbers mode, or (author, year) in ...
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Corporate authors not sorted alphabetically
I'm using natbib with the apalike-german.bst and a bibliography in alphabetical order. I need to cite some corporate authors in my thesis. However these are unfortunately not included alphabetically, ...
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How to configure customized \ref, \pageref in TeX4HT
Is possible to configure the below XML structure for \ref, \pageref and natbib cite commands such as \citep, \citealt etc.., ?
see Chapter <xref ref-type="book-part" rid="11">11</xref>
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Combining multibib and chapterbib
I am compiling a thesis in LaTeX using the documentclass book.
The thesis consists of multiple chapters with separate papers. Each chapter thus needs a separate reference list. In one of the ...
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Natbib: how to replace the last comma in a citation list with “and” when using citep
I'm referencing using Harvard style citations and in places I have to reference multiple citations at once. However I've been told that I have to seperate the last and second to last citations with an ...
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How to make hyperlinks in bibliography without showing URL
This is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{hyperref} % For hyperlinks in the PDF
\hypersetup{colorlinks=...
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Defining -aux-directory for pdflatex breaks citations for natbib
When I run pdflatex with an -aux-directory flag it makes it so natbib can't find the citations.
pdflatex command with -aux-directory:
pdflatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex -aux-...
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Natbib numbers order
I'm having some trouble with BibTeX. The code below makes references in author-year order, but for references with same author and year order is arbitrary. Any solution? Thanks :D
\documentclass{...
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Citation replaced by question marks, no error or warning
In a pdf with many citations, one of them becomes ????, without errors or warnings. How to make it display correctly? Multiple compilation runs do not help.
Replacing the bibtex entry for that ...
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Citation: Author-comma-year in LyX (classicthesis)
I am writing my thesis in LyX using classicthesis and have some troubles with citation style.
Basically, I want to avoid ERT when citing and instead use LyX' built-in "Insert citation" to get Author-...
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How can I use natbib and make my reference list resemble apalike?
My question is related to here and here, but I could not yet find a satisfying answer. I will use the same example from this post.
I like the apalike reference style but I have trouble with breaking ...
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Bibliographic style for Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier)
I am trying to format the reference list of an article to be submitted to the Journal of Cleaner Production. Unfortunately, elsarticle does not seem to have the right style in it. The more close seems ...
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How to add numbering in squared brackets to bibliography list?
I am writing a manuscript to be published in a scientific journal. For this, I am using the Springer Latex Template.
The cited references appear ordered by appearance in the final bibliography list. ...
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add parentheses to natbib year
I want to add parentheses to year in natbib references. for example instead of
[1] A. De Ange, "characterization of a practical system," Instrumentation
Measurement, vol. 71, pp. 19, 2022.
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How to get author (year) clickable references while including pagebackrefs links in bibliography in lyx
I am going crazy trying to get what seems somewhat simple to me. Right now, I have clickable references with hyperlinks back to the pages the citation occurs on.
I want to simply change it so the ...
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How can I properly format for a reprint edition in line with the Author-Date Style?
I'm working on a publication for a Springer journal and using their svjour3 LaTeX macro package to format everything (click here to download), which includes a spbasic.bst file. I'm using the Author-...
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Arxiv - Undefined citations and references, even using previously-functional files
I've been trying to re-upload an updated version of a paper on arxiv. I upload the .tex and .bbl files, and run several times but am always unable to compile, every single citation and reference (i.e. ...
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Bibliography ordered as Author, Article title, Journal, Year, Volume, Issue, and Page, and DOI
I'm having trouble trying to adapt the structure of my bibliography. Ideally I would want to have them ordered as: Author, article title, journal, year, volume, issue, and page, and DOI.
What I have ...
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How to create prefix attached to the second in-text citation in the key?
I am new to LaTeX, so maybe it is the stupid question, but I am still unable to figure it out.
I use the natbib package:
\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{authoryear,open={(},close={)}}
In the main ...
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All BiBTeX keys give the same citation
I am currently working on a presentation that includes citations and at some point LaTeX (or rather BiBTeX) linked all BibTeX keys to the same reference, so now it looks like this:
Obviously, only ...
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Don't want citations to include all authors rather than et al
Yet more problems are happening with my citations :(
I am writing my thesis in overleaf and I have collected my references from Mendeley in a BibTeX file which has been uploaded to overleaf. I am ...
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Bibtex and natbib - Multple citations using aliasing
I'm relatively new to Latex and Bibtex and I have a question that I haven't been able to find an answer to online.
I have a citation for which I’m using an alias using \defcitealias, \citetalias, ...
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Natbib: remove comma, dots between last and first name in bibliography
I need to create a bibliography with the author name with last name followed by initial without comma and dots.
MWE:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@article{...
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Missing references when compiling with VS code
I am trying to compile my latex project from the Windows Visual Studio code. Therefore, I installed the LaTeX plugin from the extensions. My project is normally built-in TexMaker, however, I noticed ...
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How to use \citet and \citep with bibtex and the verbose-trad2 style?
I'm using biblatex with the verbose-trad2 style. I want to be able when I cite the author within the text, to have something like
According to \citet{Gavard-Perret_2012}
Expected output:
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Title of article item does not show up with apsrev4-1 bibliography style
I am using a custom class for my document where I implemented the solution given here to show the title of article items within the apsrev4-1 bibliography style. However I am not succeeding with it. ...
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How to edit bst file to reorder editors and book title in @incollection?
How to edit the bst file to order editors before the book title in @incollection? The current code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname....
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Changing citation format complicated by punctuation
I have a document which was originally written with a footnote based citation format in mind. As a result the citations generally follow punctuation as in This is a test sentence.\cite{Someone:2018} ...
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how can I force natbib/unsrtnat to abbreviate first names in bibliography?
my question is similar to this one: How to abbreviate author's firstname in bibliography
...but I'm having trouble implementing the solution. I can't find my .bst file to change the format.name ...
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Cannot display tilde (~) in references latex / BibLatex
I have a link to a URL looking like this
http://www.abc.de/~doo/bar/foobar.htm
As you can see, it contains a ~. I tried changing the link to
http://www.abc.de/\~doo/bar/foobar.htm
However, the ~ ...
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Displaying 3 or more authors in natbib inline citations
I'm trying to get LaTeX to display all of the authors in the inline citations. For example,
\citep*{Cravino2018}
currently displays (Cravino et al. 2018), but I would like it to display (Cravino, ...
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Natbib Error \providecommand\NAT@force@numbers{}\NAT@force@numbers
I have a problem with natbib and unsrtnat in compilation.
The error is : Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations...mand\NAT@force@numbers{}\NAT@force@numbers
The error is raised by ...
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Multiple In preparation citations by same authors
I am attempting to cite previous chapters in my dissertation using bibtex, but most of these are currently unpublished so I am citing them as in prepartion. I have attempted to use the \noop{} ...
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! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]
My file was running fine, and I've since added a reference and the error (see title) has arrived. I had to remove the reference to fix it (editing the .bib file didn't help). I added another (...
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Sorting the references in alphabetically in chronological order according to authors last name
i have submitted a paper to Elsevier Journal (Information Sciences). The editor has told me to sort the entries (references) in alphabetical order according to authors last name. I searched a lot but ...
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Harvard Style Bibliography not as expected
I would like to create bibliography in LaTeX using Harvard Style referencing.
I wasn't able to find an exact solution to this and therefore I thought to ask here.
I have 3 different materials to ...
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