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I have solved the issue
I modified the geeometry package line to : and used margin notes for my comments:

I'm having some problems with putting notes on the left margin of my document. I have tried the methods I could find here and via Google (i.e., \marginpar; \reversemarginpar; mparhack; and \marginnote) but with no success.

I have also tried removing the various packages from my preamble to see if ...

I usually use the natbib package for my bibliography. It provides several alternative citation styles. The \citealt{key} command seems to give what you want:
Yeah, that's what I'm using, but I was using \cite[]{key}... I forgot about the other variations.

All sorted (for now), cheers for the help ...

Cheers for that... but you weren't kidding when you said it wasn't trivial!!!

Been poking at it for a few hours and I can get my reference list how I want (using custom-bib), but not my citations...
I would like to remove the comma...
Sparks et al., 1997 to
Sparks et al. 1997
It's done in this ...

I'm sure something like this has been posted before, but I did a search and found too much!!

I basically want to modify (or make a new) a reference style to fit a journal I'm writing for, but I'm not quite sure where to start.

apalike is the closest style to what I want, it out puts:
Sparks, R. S ...

Thanks for that I now have everything sorted.

Cheers

Hi guys.

I'm having some problems getting my headers to appeaper like I want them.
I want each page (except the title) to have a header with the chapter name and page number, and a footer with "DRAFT". For the most part I can do this... except for the first few parts.

My abstract, extended ...