BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ natbib | Reference Labels change

[Kuo000]

Hi all,

I want the bibliographies to have labels with author names and years instead of just numbers. E.g.,

[Getoor and Taskar, 2007] Getoor, L. and Taskar, B. (2007). Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning

I could achieve this using apalike style without using natbib. But once I use it, the reference labels are gone (still with the apalike style). I tried generating my own style with makebst from custom-bib, mostly following the default options, but it still did not get what I wanted. I suppose this has something to do with natbib, not any particular style files. Is there a simple way to get the reference labels I want with natbib?

Thanks a lot.

[josephwright]

This is exactly what you'd usually get with natbib if you use an author-year style. Please create a small demo ('minimal working example') of what you are currently doing.

[Kuo000]

This is exactly what you'd usually get with natbib if you use an author-year style. Please create a small demo ('minimal working example') of what you are currently doing.

Below is my LaTeX source:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[square]{natbib}

\title{Hello World \LaTeX{} File for Testing the \TeX{} System}

\author{Anonymous author}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

Hello world \citep{sep-aristotle-mathematics}.

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{aristotle}

\end{document}

The resulting PDF has in the References section:

Mendell, H. (2008). Aristotle and mathematics. In Zalta, E. N., editor, The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Winter 2008 edition.

without the reference label [Mendell, 2008].

Can you see the difference from the example in my initial post? I want the author-year to also appear in the reference label before the actual reference.

Thanks again.