BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ natbib | Bibliography start-up Problems

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Hi guys, I'm new to LaTeX. I'm currently doing an assignment which needs references. It's required that the referencing is the Harvard style (author-year). I've been through a lot of websites and could conclude that I should use natbib.

But none of the sites could tell me how it's done. I've tried to understand, but failed. So I humbly ask you to help me get started. An example could be really helpful.

Kind regards
Newbie

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[…] I've been through a lot of websites and could conclude that I should use natbib.

But none of the sites could tell me how it's done. […]

Perhaps reading the manuals of harvard and natbib will help you on.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

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Perhaps reading the manuals of harvard and natbib will help you on.

Thanks for the welcome and the quick answer. It helped a bit to read the natbib manual. Right now I'm trying to work it out in the {thebibliography} environment. The citations work but the references does not show any text in the PDF.

Here is my code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{agu}

\section*{Recommended texts}
something\citep{1} for love

\begin{thebibliography}{1}
	\bibitem[Jonas et al.(1992)]{1}
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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[…] Right now I'm trying to work it out in the {thebibliography} environment. […]

It can't work this way. Try BibTeX along with according entries in a database file. It could look similar to this.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage[authoryear,round]{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{lamport:94,
  author = {Lamport, Leslie},
  edition = {2nd},
  note = {User's Guide and Reference Manual},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  title = {{\LaTeX\ -- A Document Preparation System}},
  year = {1994}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\bibliographystyle{agsm}

\begin{document}
  \cite{lamport:94}
  \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

Of course you can create the BibTeX database (*.bib) separately, either in your editor or perhaps with an external tool. Use either harvard (commented in the above code) or natbib to get the citation you want.

Consider to use the biblatex package for better control of bibliographies.

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Consider to use the biblatex package for better control of bibliographies.

Okay it works now, many thanks for the help. I've been using TeXmaker which apparently was the source of the problem. Now I'm using TeXworks and everything works as supposed to.