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found the solution. dont know the technical reason behind this but all that was required was removing one of the 2 packages to solve the problem.

natbib
apacite

Hey everyone, I'm not quite sure if the title of the topic is clear but here's my problem.

I've created a .bib file containing all the needed references that i will use in my thesis. I ran the code as follows latex, bibtex, latex, latex. The citing in the text has been executed correctly. Ex ...