General ⇒ Correctly formatting citations

[mungovan]

Hi,

Anyone any ideas how to fix this, tried everything and can't find a solution:

Basically I'm using the standard Latex report format and I want to reference authors as in:

In Sterman (2000) we find that.... OR
Some research has shown (Sterman, 2000) that...

I had previously achieved this simply using the commands \citep{Sterman2000} and \citeyearpar{Sterman2000} respectively when using the elsarticle document class.

But using the report document class, no matter what I do, it references using the author name and last two digits of the year: In Sterman (Sterman 00) we find that ....OR
Some research has shown (Sterman 00) that....

That's fine for the latter case but looks bad in the former where the author's name is used twice in close succession.

In the tex file I've tried using:
\documentclass[authoryear,review,11pt]{report}
OR
\documentclass[11pt]{report} etc.

\usepackage[comma,authoryear]{natbib}
OR
\usepackage{natbib}
etc.

Noting works. Help!!

[torbjorn t.]

It is not necessary to make two threads about the same problem, you could have used your first thread. Also, I forgot one thing in my other post: Your example, if minimal should be compilable. See http://latex-community.org/forum/viewto ... f=5&t=7878

You will have to make a complete example demonstrating the problem, the below code gives

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(Author, 2000)

as output.

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\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\begin{filecontents}{demo.bib}
@book{example,
  book = {A Book},
  author = {An Author},
  year = {2000},
  publisher = {Pub Lisher},
  }
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[authoryear,round]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\citep{example}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{demo}
\end{document}

The filecontents environment writes the content of the environment to the file test.bib.