General ⇒ Change author name with natbib, get chronological order

[plac0011]

I'm using natbib for my bibliography and try to make two changes to the standard presentation:

1. The author's name in the bibliography should be displayed not as "firstname lastname" but as "lastname, firstname"

2. Works by the same author should be listed in the bibliography in chronological order, not the order in which they are cited in the text.

Does anybody know whether this is possible without attempting anything fancy (i.e. tampering with the .bst file)?

[m.papenfus]

thought I would bump this unanswered question.
I have the same problem of wanting to change first name and surname in the bibliography.

I would like it to display as:
Surname, M.Y. rather than
M.Y. Surname.

thanks for any input.

[Juanjo]

Try a different bibliography style. So write in your .tex file something like

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\bibliographystyle{XXXX}
\bibliography{mydatabase}

where mydatabase.bib is the corresponding .bib file and XXXX is a convenient .bst file. Replace XXXX, for example, by one of the following strings:

kluwer, klunum, elsart-harv

The babelbib styles cooperate with the babel package and have versions of the standard styles with different orderings for names-surnames. To use these styles, load the package babelbib. Try, for example,

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\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{babelbib}    % put this line in the preamble
.............
\bibliographystyle{babplain-lf}  % put these lines in the body of the document 
\bibliography{mydatabase}

You can search for the avalaible .bst files in your system in a directory like

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst

Good luck