Page Layout ⇒ Alter Citation Format

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Hello,

I am having difficulties in changing the citation format.

The current look of the citations are numbers in squared brackets like this "[3]". I require the citations to look like "(R. Bannister, 1998)". How can I change it? Is it stored in the class file I'm using or elsewhere?

My references are cited using the \citep{label} command and the bibliography is written in BibTeX. I have tried using \cite{key} but that gives the same results

Please let me know if you need more information! Thank you!

[josephwright]

You want a so-called 'author-year' bibliography style. The standard way to do this in LaTeX is to use the natbib package and a suitable \bibliographystyle, for example unsrtnat.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}

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I thought it would be something really simple, thank you!