General ⇒ HELP with bibliography

[Lana]

Hello everyone,
I'm a beginner in latex and hope that my question is simple and someone here can help me.

I need to organize the reference list in alphabetic order and without enumeration, like:

Johnes D (2002) Title of the article, Journal, 1(1):123-125.

With citation in the text using authername and year in parentheses.

Maybe this is very simple, but I could not find such style for bibtex and I also do not know how to get rid from the numbers using \thebibliography.

PS I use documentclass{article}

Thanks in advance!!!

[phi]

Hello,

have a look at the natbib package, it provides commands for author–year citations. You can create custom bibliography styles with the custom-bib program.

[Lana]

Yes, I tried... but I still couldn't find how to eliminate numbering in the reference list... Any ideas?

[phi]

Sorry, I edited my post just after you answered. Using the custom-bib (also called makebst) program, you can build virtually any bibliography style file that suits your needs.

[Lana]

Sorry, I edited my post just after you answered. Using the custom-bib (also called makebst) program, you can build virtually any bibliography style file that suits your needs.

Thanks for help I'll try

[Lana]

But I wonder, isn't there some command to simply remove enumeration from the reference list using "\thebibliography". It seems to be an easy thing, but why one should make a customized style for that?

[phi]

I think the enumeration is removed when you use a natbib style like plainnat, too, because these styles know that the numbers aren’t required for the citations. I’ve just tried that and no numbers show up, but you get "David Johnes. Title of the article. Journal, 1(1):123–125, 2002." rather than your preferred bibliography item style. This is why I suggested using makebst. If you don’t insist on the correct order of the bibliography item parts, you can use the plainnat style. On the other hand, creating a custom style consists only of answering a few simple questions.

[Juanjo]

It seems that the apa style is close (or equal) to that you are searching for. So add to your tex file the line

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 \bibliographystyle{apa}

You may also try the styles apalike, humannat, bbs,... Of course, don't forget the \bibliography command, whose argument is the name of your bibliographic database.
Use commands defined in natbib, like \citet or \citep, to cite references throughout your document.