BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ n.d. (no date) using natbib with apalike

[lauraf]

Hi all,

I am using natbib with style apalike. I wish to insert a reference with no date, which following the APA guidelines should have (n.d.) in place of the year.

For example:

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@manual{pagelMeadeBT,
	Author = {Pagel, Mark and Meade, Andrew},
	Note = {Retrieved September 1, 2008, from \url{http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/BayesTraits.html}},
	Organization = {School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading},
	Title = {\emph{{B}ayes{T}raits} manual (version 1.0)},
	Url = {http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/BayesTraits.html},
	Year = {n.d.}}

This formats as Pagel and Meade (nd) in the text, and as Pagel and Meade (n.d.) in the reference list. Is there any way for the in text reference to preserve the full stops? I have tried enclosing the n.d. in extra braces etc but nothing seems to work.

I know that apacite can handle this but I am too close to submitting my thesis to want to change it all at this stage...

Any help much appreciated!
Laura

[pandammonium]

Just leave the year field blank, then the `no date' will be formatted according to your style file, for example, Harvard's apsr gives `N.d.' and agsm gives `n.d.'; apalike should do whatever the APA specifies.

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  year =         {},