I'm using TexShop (Tex Live 2010) on mac. I'm trying to use built-in Chicago citation style. But I found a bug when I try to cite the articles with the same first author, on the same year, with more than three co-authors but different ones.
Such as:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{my.bib}
@article{author1,
author = {Author, F. and Author, S and Author, T},
journal = {Journal A},
title = {First Paper},
year = {2000}}
@article{author2,
author = {Author, F. and Author, S and Author, T and Author, F.},
journal = {Journal B},
title = {Second Paper},
year = {2000}}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
Some words \citep{author1, author2}.
\bibliographystyle{chicagoa}
\bibliography{my}
\end{document}
Then got this result like "Author et al., 2000,?",
while I want something like "Author et al., 2000a,b".
I guess this is a quite old known bug, so any comments are welcomed.
Best Answer
Consider to switch to
biblatex
which features an advanced mechanism for name/name list disambiguation. In the following example, I tried to emulate the behaviour of thechicagoa
style with respect to name list citations; however, additional formatting tweaks may be advisable for the bibliography.