[Tex/LaTex] Change citation style from square brackets to forward slashes

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In latex, how can I change citation style from square brackets (e.g. "As authors in [1] show …") to forward slashes ("As authors in /1/ show …")?

EDIT To answer the comments below… I don't know the name of citation style. It is just a requirement of MSc thesis formatting.

Main document (dissertation.tex) looks like that

\documentclass[a4paper,14pt]{extreport}
\input{packages}        
\input{styles}          
\input{data}            
\begin{document}
\input{introduction}   
\input{part1}          
\input{references}     
\end{document}

The command used to generate pdf

latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="xelatex %O %S" dissertation

EDIT 2 Bibliography style, the style is defined here (https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template/blob/master/Synopsis/utf8gost71u.bst)

\bibliographystyle{utf8gost71u} 
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@biblabel}[1]{#1.}
\makeatother

Best Answer

You can do this using the cite package:

\usepackage{cite}
\def\citeleft{/}
\def\citeright{/}

I think it's quite self-explanatory:)

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[Tex/LaTex] Citation with some text inside square brackets

A recommendable choice would be to use natbib or better yet biblatex. Let's see with natbib:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{01,
 author={Caesar, Gaius Iulius},
 title={Commentarii de bello {Gallico}},
 year={703},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers,square]{natbib}

\begin{document}

Here's a citation \cite[See:][p.~2]{01}

Another: \cite[p.~3]{01}.

Another: \cite{01}.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

The \cite command has now two optional argument. When only one is present, it's the "post-citation"; if two are present, the first is the "pre-citation" and the second one the post-citation.

Without extra packages you can still emulate this behavior:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{01,
 author={Caesar, Gaius Iulius},
 title={Commentarii de bello {Gallico}},
 year={703},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\let\cite\relax
\DeclareRobustCommand{\cite}{%
  \let\new@cite@pre\@gobble
  \@ifnextchar[\new@cite{\@citex[]}}
\def\new@cite[#1]{\@ifnextchar[{\new@citea{#1}}{\@citex[#1]}}
\def\new@citea#1{\def\new@cite@pre{#1}\@citex}
\def\@cite#1#2{[{\new@cite@pre\space#1\if\relax\detokenize{#2}\relax\else, #2\fi}]}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

Here's a citation \cite[See:][p.~2]{01}

Another: \cite[p.~3]{01}.

Another: \cite{01}.

Again: \cite[See:][]{01}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

In case you want only the "pre-citation", use

\cite[See:][]{01}

with an empty second optional argument.

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[Tex/LaTex] change authoryear biblatex citation style

I do not know what the historian style is (it's not a standard one), but I see you use citestyle=authoryear anyway, so this should be the same.

The example below does what you want, I believe. It uses the biblatex example bibliography. Note that some years have letters after them, this happens when the same author has several works in the same year.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnamefirst}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnamelast}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnameprefix}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
% \renewcommand{\mkbibnameaffix}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\addspace}


\newbibmacro*{cite_p}{%adapted from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}%
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}%
       {\printnames[labelname_p]{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}%
     \iffieldundef{pages}%
         {}%
         {\addcomma\addspace\printfield{pages}}%
   }
   {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]%adapted from authoryear.cbx
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite_p}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareNameFormat{labelname_p}{%from biblatex.def
  \ifcase\value{uniquename}%
    \usebibmacro{name:last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#3}{#5}{#7}%
  \or
    \ifuseprefix
      {\usebibmacro{name:first-last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#4}{#5}{#8}}
      {\usebibmacro{name:first-last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#4}{#6}{#8}}%
  \or
    \usebibmacro{name:first-last}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{#3}{#5}{#7}%
  \fi
  \usebibmacro{name:andothers}}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\addbibresource{test.bib}


\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item Year and pages \parencite{nietzsche:historie}.
\item Two inbook with year and pages \parencite{nietzsche:historie, brandt} 
\item A book with no pages \parencite{massa}
\item textcite on a book with no pages \textcite{massa}.
\item Several books \parencite{murray, augustine, cotton, bertram, massa}.
\item Article with single page \parencite{art1}
\item textciting  \textcite{nietzsche:historie, brandt}
\end{itemize}

\nocite{*}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Explanation

If you want to know the nitty gritty, compare what I have here with what's in authoryear.cbx, you should see what I changed. However, in short:

\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\addspace} to make sure name and year are separated by a space and a comma
Made new citation macro cite_p, basically a copy of cite, but added the pages bit at the end
Redefine parencite to use our custom cite_p.
3+4 ensure that other citation commands are unchanged.

Update

Fixed some bugs, as per comments below

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