General ⇒ A simple but annoying problem with bibtex

[New Guest]

I'm writing a major paper, and I use BibTeX to take care of my sources. I use the style plainnat. Let's assume I have a book written by a Bill Clinton, and the label I use for the book is Clinton09. My problem is that whenever I use \citep{Clinton09} the correct text appears in the text: [Clinton, 2009], however in my litterature chapter there's no such tag. Instead BibTeX just lists all the information on the various sources I've used, so it is up to the reader to figure out precisely which source [Clinton, 2009] relates to. How do I get [Clinton, 2009] before the correct entry? I'm also using the Natbib package.

[benti]

I'm not sure, but it could be that you misconfigured natbib. If I understand you correctly, the referencing style you want to use is a 'numbered' style; could it be that you set natbib to the author-year format?