General ⇒ Natbib - different author, same last name.

[LauraLee]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me with a small natbib problem:

My bibtex file includes two references by different authors who share a surname. In the reference section at the end of my LaTeX document these are differentiated by their initials - this I'm happy with. My little problem is with the layout of the names in the main document, one appears as (H. D. Ellis & Young, 1998) and the other as (A. W. Ellis, Young, & Flude, 1990). I would like to suppress the initials in the main document (but not in the reference section). Does anyone have any idea about how to do this?

Thank you,
Laura

[gmedina]

Hi Laura,

the following simple example behaves as you expect:

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\begin{filecontents}{bibliotest.bib}
@article{Ellis1998,
  author = "Ellis, H. D. and Young",
  title = "The title",
  journal = "The journal",
  year = "1998"
}
@article{Ellis2002,
  author = "Ellis, A. W. and Young and Flude",
  title = "Another title",
  journal = "Another journal",
  year = "2002"
}
\end{filecontents}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}

\citet*{Ellis1998}

\citet*{Ellis2002}

\citep*{Ellis1998}

\citep*{Ellis2002}

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{bibliotest}

\end{document}

so we will need some actual code (along the lines of the example above) to provide effective help.