General ⇒ How can I cite in this format: [number - authors, year; ...]

[Monkey D]

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I see I can do citations like: (Roberts & Cronin, 1996)
I would like to know if it's possible to do it like this: [1 - Roberts & Cronin, 1996]. The difference are the square brakets and the index of the reference in the bibliography.

I would like to have my references indexed, but at the same time show the author's name and publication year automatically.

I remember using a program (from CPAN maybe) that interactively asked the user the format of its bibliography. I can't remember its name now and don't know if it can be usefull or not here...


Thank you!

deadlines.... deadlines.... the deadlines are coming...

[seano]

Loading the natbib package with the numbers option should enable this kind of referencing. i.e.

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\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

I'll have to leave it up to you to work out the exact formatting though...

Check out the natbib documentation, I think that will give you all of the code that you need.

[Monkey D]

(for future reference)

It seems I can't get exactly what I want.
I'm using:
\usepackage[square, sort, authoryear]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

I checked natnotes.pdf (from CTAN) and there are two main modes: numbers and authoryear. While authoryear surrounds the reference within brackets (which is what I want) it does not support numbering. And on the other hand numbers keeps a counter but does not fully enclose the citation within brackets...

authoryear:
\citep{jon90} ⇒ (Jones et al., 1990)

numbers:
\citet{jon90} ⇒ Jones et al. [21]
\citep{jon90} ⇒ [21]


Probably to get exactly what I want I would have to make my own .bst file...

[Monkey D]

But one thing I would like to know is if it's possible to sort the references by author's surname instead of the first name.