BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Very basic problem changing BibTeX style

[MichaelS50]

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{greenwade93}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\bibliography{References}
\end{document}

This very minimal example works fine when I use 'plain' bibliography style, but with 'chicago' or anything else I have tried I get the following error:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \protect \citeauthoryear
{Greenwade}{Greenwade}{1993}
l.3 ...r{Greenwade}{Greenwade}{1993}{greenwade93}

?

If I hit enter and ignore the warning the reference comes out right except that it is prefixed with "[GreenwadeGreenwade1993]"

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Michael

[frabjous]

The Chicago bibliography style (.bst) and related ones are typically used with an author-date bibliography package like natbib:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{greenwade93}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\bibliography{References}
\end{document}

That should solve the error. Natbib has a lot of features and options which you'll probably want to read about in its documentation.

There's an older package just called "chicago" (\usepackage{chicago}) which should also work, but I think natbib is more advanced.

[MichaelS50]

Worked like magic, many thanks.

I have been looking at all these various packages and options for several days and just didn't piece it together.

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