[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX, Natbib, and Algorithm2e

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I'm trying to prepare a journal submission, and I'm having trouble getting natbib to play nicely.

  1. When I include natbib in my document, it gives me the following error:

    ! Undefined control sequence
\chapter ...ace{10\p@ }}\algocf@original@chapter

l.1 \begin{thebibliography}{17}

    This isn't such a huge deal to me — I'm fine working around it. The bigger problem that I have is…

  2. When I disable natbib, the citation keys and references look horrible. For example, if I have the following bibtex entry

    @article{Day06,
    author = {T.E.~Day and J.T.~Napoli and P.C.~Kuo},
    title = {Scheduling the Resident 80-Hour Work Week: An Operations Research Algorithm},
    journal = {Current Surgery},
    volume = {63},
    number = {2},
    month = {Mar.-Apr.},
    year = {2006},
    pages = {136-141}
}

    whenever I use \cite{Day06} it produces [Day et al(2006)Day, Napoli, and Kuo] in my text, which looks awful. Even worse, the entry in the references section looks terrible, too:

    [Day et al(2006)Day, Napoli, and Kuo] Day T, Napoli J, Kuo P (2006)
    Scheduling the resident 80-hour work week: An operations research
    algorithm. Current Surgery 63(2):136-141

    I don't know why it's including the (horribly-mangled) key in the citation next to the author list.

Any suggestions? Has anyone else dealt with this before?

Edited to more accurately reflect the problem.

Best Answer

Are you using MiKTeX or TeXLive? If you are using TeXLive can you tell me which version? To be frank it looks very similar to the fonts problem I had with natbib due to the outdated (2009) version of TeXLive I used. I updated to 2011 and the problems went a way.

Please check out the answer to REVTeX4-1 biblography problems.

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