BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Formatting references

[sveioen]

Hi all,

I would like to format references in the text as (Surname, year) and in the list of references appear with surname first, "Surname, Firstname. Name-of-paper......", i.e. not as a number, e.g [2]. How would I do this? I'm currently using natlib with the plainnat, but it outputs firstname first in the list of references. I'm a bit confused of all the different styles, so I'll try my luck here.

Thanks!

[kaiserkarl13]

I highly recommend Patrick Daly's "makebst" file, which should be installed as part of your LaTeX distribution. Just run "latex makebst" from the directory in which you wish to create the .bst file and answer the questions that follow. This MAY solve all of your problems. In particular, there is a question called "Full, surname first" that may be exactly what you're looking for.

There are also options such as square and round to natbib.sty that change whether you get brackets, braces, or parentheses around the citation (numerical or author-year). See the natbib documentation for details.