BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Natbib and apalike conflict

[zaksotiris]

hi to all

I am trying to write my thesis proposal and i have some major problems with natbib package. I am using the apalike bibliography style. When i am using the natbib package i am getting this message:

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! LaTeX Error: Command \bibhang already defined.Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... \newlength{\bibhang}

I do not know, what i am doing wrong.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{apalike}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{environ}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{fullpage}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
dddfdff\end{abstract}
\pagebreak
\begin{LARGE}
\section{Introduction}
\end{LARGE}
dkhddh \end{document}

Thank you in advance for any solution.

[cgnieder]

Hi zaksotiris,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

In this case there are two possibilities:

1. change the loading order:

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   \usepackage{apalike}
   \usepackage{natbib}

2. „delete“ the first \bibhang before loading the second package:

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   \usepackage{apalike}
   \let\bibhang\relax
   \usepackage{natbib}

If you want apalike's formatting you should choose the first variant, if you want that of natbib choose the second.

I've also made some minor comments on your minimal working example (which is rather good, actually, compared to many others!)

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{apalike}

% not necessary for the example:
% \usepackage{amsmath}
% \usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry}
% \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
% \usepackage{multirow}
% \usepackage{environ}
% \pagestyle{plain}
% \usepackage{fullpage}

\begin{document}
% the \maketitle macro throws errors if no \title and no \author are given!
% \maketitle

\begin{abstract}
  dddfdff
\end{abstract}

\pagebreak

% changing the layout of section titles should be done using a package like
% `titlesec' and _not_ by placing \Large manually.  It does't have an effect
% here, anyway
% \begin{LARGE}
\section{Introduction}
% \end{LARGE}

dkhddh
\end{document}

[zaksotiris]

thank you very much..Your comments were very helpful.