BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ natbib | Bibliography not compatible

[josephwright]

Natbib is written by Patrick Daly:

http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/daly/

[blakeredfield]

I am having the same problem, as the original post. And the machine that compiled by documemt originally is not accessible anymore. Can you please post the old natbib.sys, so me and anyone else with this problem can fall back to it?

Is there a place where I can get the old one anyway?

[Tissie]

I recently got the solution from another forum; just write

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\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

instead of:

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\usepackage{natbib}

This will work with the new version.

[blakeredfield]

Nice, you're too fast mate. I just got the 'old' version of natbib from 2007 and was about to upload it.

Just in case someone needs it however, I will put it here.

Thanks for the workaround.

[kallemarx]

Hi guys!

I found this thread owing to the same problem. I'm happy I can tell you overwriting the new natbib.sty (v8.31) with the old one (v7.0a) worked very fine.

Since there is no post in response to localghosts entry of Feb 20. 2009 I searched for the author of the .sty-file and found Patrick W Daly from Katlenburg/Germany holding the Copyright for it. I sent him a link to this thread - hopefully he will react.

Best regards, Marx.

[janki]

The solution for Windows 7 users (I am using MiKTeX 2.8): the file to change (natbib.sty) is not in Program Files any more. I found it in c:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\latex\natbib\ folder (it is hidden!)

Best,
Jacek

[Desalegn]

I am having the same issue. I don't have the old version of Natib.
The bib file works perfectly with the numerical style, but the author-year style (Plainnate) causes error "! Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations"
Any suggestion please?

[okasha]

I'm also having this problem with Natbib.

Two solutions have been suggested on this thread so far.

(i) use the [numbers] option with Natbib.
However, this is no good as I want author-year, not numerical citations. (This is why I am using Natbib in the first place.)

(ii) Overwrite with an old version of Natbib.
My problem is that I don't know how to do this, in fact I don't really understand what it means.
I am new to LaTeX, this is my first attempt to use BibTex and NatBib.

Could someone please tell me how to do option (ii), or else suggest another fix?

many thanks

[Clovis]

This topic helped me solving the issue.
I just replace the natbib 2009 package by the 2007 one.

Thxs

[tash]

I managed to fix this problem by checking my .bib file for missing year entries (very easily done using BibDesk and probably most similar software - just sorted all entries by year and edited/removed those with the years missing.) Re-ran everything and didn't have any problems.