BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Getting citations in ( ) instead of [ ]! Help?

[moatox]

Hello all

I'm using a new thesis template which I came across on the Internet. Everything is great, however I'm getting my citations numbers in my text between normal brackets ( ) rather than square brackets regardless of the style used. It is working well (numbering appears between square brackets) in the bibliography list at the end but I can't get my head around fixing it within the text.

Example
Currently: As we see from (1), the method is...
Desired: As we see from [1], the method is...

Any help?
Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi moatox,

welcome to the board!
If you are using natbib you could set the square option:

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\usepackage[square]{natbib}

Stefan

[gmedina]

Hi moatox,

without natbib you will have to add something like the following to the preamble of your document:

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\usepackage{ifthen}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@cite[2]{%
  [{#1\ifthenelse{\boolean{@tempswa}}{,\nolinebreak[3] #2}{}}]}
\makeatother

[localghost]

[...] I'm using a new thesis template which I came across on the Internet. [...]

It is extremely helpful if you give a link where to find this template.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[moatox]

Hello all and thanks for your replies..

I reckon am not using natbib.. or at least am not specifying this! .. Tried both solutions but didn't work.

Gmedina's change nothing while Stephan's give a LaTeX error: Option clash for package natlib.

You can tell I don't know what am doing

btw, I snatched the template from here
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/tex ... esisStyle/


Advice?
Many thanks

[localghost]

The second point under »Frequently Asked Questions« on the given site answers exactly your question. This sounds to me that round braces are the default setting. Hence there must be some changes at a critical place. If the problem persists, build a minimal working example (MWE) with this class.

[moatox]

You're right - sorry I should've seen it.

And Stephan's tip was correct, but as the package was defined in the class file, defining it again in the main file created a clash.

Cheers
M