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Johannes_B wrote:hi and welcome,

you have to decide, either use natbib or apalike as both do more or less the same.

In this modern times, using package biblatex is encouraged. It is much more flexible and the style of the bibliography can be changed using LaTeX commands.

Thanks for fast reply.

Hi
My files are in Overleaf online service.
I installed JabRef locally and make my .bib file in BibTex format.
To be able to have my references in Surname Ini.(name) format, I am trying to use apalike to have surname first and name initial.
I tried that:
\usepackage{apalike}
\usepackage{natbib ...