Document Classes ⇒ elsarticle, natbib | Possible Clash

[sjaak]

Hi I am unable to get this to work on my Gummi install at home, while it works without problems at work:

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\documentclass[review,times,authoryear]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}
Hello \cite{lamport94}

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
  \bibitem{lamport94}
    Leslie Lamport,
    \emph{\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System}.
    Addison Wesley, Massachusetts,
    2nd Edition,
    1994.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

The error I get is:

Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.

I am not sure I understand this error. I have tried various other \bibitem formats, without luck.

When I remove "authoryear" in the options for elsarticle, it works.

\listfiles gives me

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elsarticle.cls    2009/09/17, 1.20b: Elsevier Ltd
natbib.sty    2009/07/16 8.31 (PWD, AO)

[localghost]

The problem is not related to the elsarticle class. The natbib package does not expect that you do your bibliography by hand with the thebibliography environment. Probably it will help if you just replace it by \bibliographystyle{unsrtnat} (or something similar). The below example works for me.

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\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{lamport94,
  author = {Leslie Lamport},
  edition = {Second},
  note = {User's Guide and Reference Manual},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  title = {\LaTeX\ -- A Document Preparation System},
  year = {1994}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[review,times,authoryear,english]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{natbib}

\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}

\begin{document}
  Hello \cite{lamport94}

  \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

I also tried this example with Gummi, but it seems not to recognize the file written by the filecontents(*) environment. But if the bibliography database file is present separately, the code should also compile with Gummi. However, I could not make Gummi recognize the database file (*.bib).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten