BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibliography with Citation in Author-Year Format

[august_month]

Hello everyone,

I would like authors to be cited in the following format: Smith [1997].

Any ideas? Basic internet search did not return much.

Regards,
august_month


P.S.: I guess natbib offers some interesting functionality. Could anybody give me a link with example on how to use it (including citation and bibliography). It seems like bibliography needs to be in separate file. Sounds crazy to me.

[Johannes_B]

Any ideas? Basic internet search did not return much.

I really don't believe you.
Have a look at TeX{SX} for a starting point. There are also linked questions on the right hand side. Plaese have a look.

btw: just typing latex bibliography into my standard search engines directs me to WikiBook: LaTeX/Bibliography Management.

There is the same advice: Use biblatex in conjunction with biber.

If you are speaking german by any chance, please also have a look at GoLaTeX: Erstellung von Literaturverzeichnissen

[august_month]

Thank you for the suggestion. It will take me some time to read through. However, at first glance none of links mention citation in the form: Smith [1997].

But I will keep reading.

[Johannes_B]

\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex} should do the trick for you.

[august_month]

Thank you, again! I guess I need to read some basic stuff about biblatex. It seems to require to have bibliography in a separate file, while I used to have all my bibliography in the same file with main document.

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\documentclass[12pt,oneside,reqno,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\setlength{\mathindent}{\parindent}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
y_1=ax_1+b\\
y_2=ax_2+b
\end{align}

\blindtext
blah, blah \cite{BL}

\begin{thebibliography}{BH}

\bibitem{BL} Black F. and Litterman R.:\textit{ Global Portfolio Optimization}, Financial Analysts Journal, September 1992, pp. 28–43

\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

In the following example, the external file is produced with filecontents. You can manage your references with Jabref.

Run latex (or pdflatex), biber, latex and latex again on the main file (without the ending), or just use latexmk

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{my\jobname.bib}
 @book{ilias,
  author       = {Homer},
  title        = {Die Ilias},
  date         = 2004,
  translator   = {Schadewaldt, Wolfgang},
  introduction = {Latacz, Joachim},
  edition      = 3,
  publisher    = {Artemis \& Winkler},
  location     = {D{\"u}sseldorf and Z{\"u}rich},
  langid       = {german},
  sorttitle    = {Ilias},
  indextitle   = {Ilias, Die},
  shorttitle   = {Ilias},
  annotation   = {A German translation of the \emph{Iliad}. Note the
                  \texttt{translator} and \texttt{introduction} fields and the
                  format of the \texttt{location} field in the database
                  file. Also note the \texttt{sorttitle} and \texttt{indextitle}
                  fields},
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[12pt,oneside,reqno,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{my\jobname.bib}

\setlength{\mathindent}{\parindent}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
y_1=ax_1+b\\
y_2=ax_2+b
\end{align}

\blindtext
blah, blah \cite{ilias}

\printbibliography
\end{document}