BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citation with own Text

[Phantomias]

Hello all, I've got a little problem with citing in Latex...
I've been using google for hours and I just couldn't find a solution...
I need it tomorrow so this is my last, desperated attempt to solve it -.-

I've got a .bib file, containing the following author:

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@Article{Welch:1967,
  author =       {P.D.~Welch},
  title =        {The Use of Fast {F}ourier Transform for the Estimation of Power Spectra: A Method Based on Time Averaging Over Short Modified Periodograms},
  .......

This are some parts of my Latex code:

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\usepackage[ngerman, latin]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{natbib}
...

\begin{document}
...

\begin{flushleft}
.......
many books (see also Reference \cite{Welch:1976}). However, we don't
.......
\end{flushleft}

...

\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{test}

\end{document}

I may not edit the .bib file! The corresponding .pdf file should look like this:
(the part from the flushleft)

...many books (see also Reference Welch). However, we don't...

Therefore, I have to create a cite in the text, where there is only the first name
of the author and nothing else. Seems like there is no bibliographystyle that can
do that for me... (That's why I'm using {alpha} atm. but then the cite says Wel67)

I hope you get what I mean, since I don't really know how to describe it well...
Thanks in advance

[localghost]

It would be very kind if you mention when doing a crossposting [1]*. This is only fair because it prevents others from double efforts and waste of time.


* According to the rules you are obliged to do so.

[1] \cite Referenz ändern – mrunix.de


Thorsten

[kaiserkarl13]

Try \citealt, \citealp or \Citeauthor, as in "(see \citealt{Welch:1967})"

I have found the following site to be useful when working with Natbib:
http://merkel.zoneo.net/Latex/natbib.php.

[Phantomias]

It would be very kind if you mention when doing a crossposting [1]*.
Thorsten

Sorry for that, I didn't know that moderators check the postings bevor they get posted. Therefore, there was no guarantee that my posting would appear before tomorrow. That's why I did look for a different forum after I submitted my post.
(I can't edit my post before it was submitted, can I?)
The other thing is, that the other forum's language is german. I don't think that many people here can read that... (Unlike you, since you come from germany)


@kaiserkarl,
thank you for you advice, but "\citealt, \citealp or \citeauthor" are giving me more output than the first name, or in case of "citeauthor" I get "author?" as output.

[Phantomias]

The problem has been solved at the german thread. Thanks everyone for your replies.

@kaiserkarl,
you were right, \citeauthor did the trick, I just had to use a different style I didn't know of...