General ⇒ bibliography style

[azuki]

This may sound like an odd question, but is there a way of using two different citation styles for the same document other than using the multibib package?

So for e.g., in one part of my document, I'd like to have something like:
"Apples are red (1)" (numerical style), and then in a later part of the document, I'd like to switch to "Blueberries are blue (Smith et al., 2008)" (author-year style (apalike)).

I'd like my bibliography at the end to be the default that corresponds to the apalike style however, no matter whether the reference corresponds to a numerical or apalike style citation.

I've tried putting the \bibliographystyle command just before where I'd like to change the style but it doesn't seem to work. (I'm also using the natbib package if that makes a difference).

Thanks for any help!

[Juanjo]

Really odd! If I understand correctly, you want just one bibliography at the end of your document, where entries are labeled as usual in the apalike style. However, you want to refer to items in the bibliography either numerically or alphabetically. The problem from the reader's point of view is that numerical cites are meaningless, since the bibliographic entries are not numbered. There is surely something in your query that I don't understand.

[azuki]

yeah, I should have been more clear, because you're right...that wouldn't make sense! I'm doing a manuscript-based thesis with 2 manuscripts. The manuscripts have numerical style citations (according to the journal's specifications) and each manuscript has its own bibliography at the end. However, I also have text sandwiching the manuscripts for the thesis (intro, lit review etc) and at the very end of all of this, I have an overall bibliography for ALL references (lit review, manuscripts etc). As each manuscript needs to be able to stand alone by themselves (i.e. distinct numbering....each starts at 1 again), a numerical citation style would obviously not work for the overall bibliography, and so I want to use the author-year style for the overall bibliography (and for the citations of the sandwiching text). Hope that makes more sense now? Thanks again!

So something like this:
intro
lit review
manuscript 1
manuscript 1 biblio
manuscript 2
manuscript 2 biblio
conclusion
overall biblio

[Juanjo]

I've been thinking about your problem, that I don't know how to solve without the help of a package like multibib. I wonder if you really need the "intermediate" bibliographies (those for the manuscripts). In fact, they are redundant, since you are going to include at the end a full bibliography. Of course, if you suppress those bibliographies, things are quite straightforward.

I suppose that each manuscript is really a long article that you intend to publish alone. So you have had to adapt it somehow in order to include it in the thesis. It is a trivial change to comment out the lines which write the corresponding bibliography.

From the reader's point of view, there is almost no difference in searching references inside a bibliography specific to the manuscript than searching them in the full bibliography.

Summarizing, I suggest you to consider if you really need to include the intermediate bibliographies. If you finally decide to going on with them, I have some ideas based on the following bases:

• The bibliographies are obtained via the multibib package.
• It is possible to use the numerical style in all of them. To distinguish one from another, items can be numbered, for example, [A1], [A2],... in the first bibliography, [B1], [B2],..., in the second one, and, say, [C1], [C2],... in the complete bibliography.
• Each bibliography requires its own bib file.
• There is a serious drawback: a document appearing in two different bibliographies requires different labels in the corresponding bib files. You should manually tweak the bib files to assure that there are no repeated labels.

I may post a complete example if you want.

[azuki]

hi there,

thanks again! the intermediate bibliographies aren't really up to me - those are dept formatting regulations! I did try the natbib package at one point and now that you mention that drawback, I think that was the reason why I had abandoned it. I have a way of going about this but it requires cutting and pasting pdfs together. I was just looking for a lazy way around this because 1) this is inconvenient every time I have to do this and 2) using the natbib package would require me to change all the citations and I'm on a bit of a time crunch! well, thanks anyway!