BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ natbib bibliography name style problem

[pjiggens]

Hello all,

I am attempting to get LaTeX to output in the bibliography of my document the publications with the Harvard referencing format, i.e.:
Bloggs, J. ([year]), [Article Name], [Journal Name], [Volume] ([Number]), p 123-456.

In the pre-amble I have placed:
\usepackage[round]{natbib}

After \begin{document} I have:
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

And at the end before \end{document} I have:
\bibliography{bibrefth}

"bibrefth.bib" is the name of the file in which I have stored all my references. The problem is that it is outputting the Author initial BEFORE the surname, i.e.:
J. Bloggs. [Article Name]. [Journal Name], [Volume] ([Number]): p 123-456, [year].

There are other differences such as where the year is being placed after the name rather than at the end and I'd like to change them as well but I'm not too fussed. The name and initials issue however i really need to resolve.

I want the references as Bloggs ([year]) (called by \citet) and (Bloggs, [year]) (as called by \citep) as natbib outputs it rather than numbered but I cannot find a way to get LaTeX to reverse the order of the surname and initials. I guess I need something different from plainnat.bst but I can't find the file I need.

Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

[josephwright]

There are lots of .bst style files. You should tell us what style you are following (for example, based on some journal or style guide?) so we can find one that seems suitable.

[pjiggens]

Looking at it, the Journal of Geophysical Research style would be fine (if you know that one?) although i would rather parentheses than square brackets if possible. This is for my PhD thesis but my university doesn't provide such things as a LaTeX style file unfortunately.

[josephwright]

I don't know the journal you mention, but if you look at http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/manuscr ... ndex.shtml you'll find a toolkit including a BibTeX style file for the journal. I'd try that in the first instance.

[pjiggens]

I was about to copy all the references from the .bbl to a separate .tex file and run it without the \bibliography command as that's what i had to do when i was writing an article for the said journal but it turns out that setting the bibliography style to chicago and running it with natbib it worked. I was sure i'd done that before and it had failed to produce the citations in the body as i wanted but now it's fine so i apologise for wasting your time.