BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Comma between author and year for citation in-text

[jfoster473]

Dear all,

I have only been using Latex for a few weeks and am using BibTex to do the Biography.

When I cite a reference in-text there is no comma between the author and the date in the in-text cite. For example when I use the \cite{} command it prints (Nash 1950) rather than (Nash, 1950).

I have looked around the forum but have not been able to find an answer to this.

Thank you,

J.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hello,

welcome to the forum!

Which bibliography style are you using? I.e. what is your setting with \bibliographystyle, and do you have any relevant packages (natbib?) or settings in your document preamble?

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

If you are flexible, you should have a look at package biblatex in conjunction with biber.

[jfoster473]

Thank you for the reply,

I am using a custom version I made using custom-bib. I am not using any packages - should I look into using a package such as biblatex or natbib?

[Johannes_B]

should I look into using a package such as biblatex or natbib?

.

Yes, definitely. Biblatex is the modern one and you can modify the appearance of citations and the bibliography using LaTeX-commands. With biber as the backend you get a lot more options to sort the bibliography including bibliographies per chapter or subdivided bibliographies.