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I was not sure if it was correct to copy/paste his answer here, but if that's okay, perfect.

An answer was posted at http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/299029/91445 , describing this behavior as "You've come across an unusual -- and admittedly rather severely under-documented -- feature (not a bug...)" :D

It seems that the apalike style does behave how I want the references to behave, so I'll ...

I don't see the difference? I mean, two different papers which both have the exact same list of authors are abbreviated to "Basu et al. (2008a), Basu et al. (2008b)", with the resulting references as (this is actually what Bibtex/AGSM creates):


Basu, S., Vinuesa, J.-F. & Swift, A. (2008a ...

What you see is a very important feature. It makes the entries really unique.

But I thought that using the Harvard style this should be abbreviated to bla (2008a), bla (2008b)?

Multiple references to the same author
If you cite different documents by the same author which were published in the ...

This is an exact copy of my question at: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/297271/bibtex-harvard-agsm-doesnt-abbreviate-to-et-al-for-duplicate-authoryear , which didn't get any replies. Apologies for cross-posting, but I have to finish a PhD thesis :oops:

With BibTeX and the harvard/AGSM ...