[Tex/LaTex] Cite a reference with the initials of the authors

citingnatbib

How do I cite references such that instead of appearing a number in the citation, the initials of the authors appears using natbib? For example, if I have this reference

"[JRP] Jordan, M., Rodman, D., and Pippen, S. The best basketball team ever. 1999."

When I cite this inside the document, I want something like this:

"In a last minute play something happened [JRP]."

I've tried several options in natbib without success. This webpage have a nice description of natbib options and commands. However, I cannot find the proper way for doing this kind of citation.

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You have to play with the bibliographystyle of your document. You can find a nice list of bibliography styles at

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Image:Bibstyles.pdf

The one you want really is close the alpha style, but without the year, and is called alphanum. Therefore, just add

\bibliographystyle{alphanum}

close the end of your document (before the bibliography). In case the style is not installed on your system you will get an error when using bibtex on the document (something like "I couldn't open style file alphanum.bst"). In this case download the file, for example from

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/alphanum.bst

and install in a place where bibtex can find it.

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[Tex/LaTex] BibTex/Natbib: References with exactly three authors require all authors on first occurence and first author et al on further occurences

Here is a proof of concept (no support for the optional argument, and something similar is needed for \citep and other cite commands), and also it assumes that the .bst style use "et al" for references for more that a single author.

The idea is to create something similar to \ifciteseen in biblatex. Thus we can create a list of references already cited in the document (and we exploit the list facilities of etoolbox). Then, if the reference has not been used before we use \citet*, and we add the key to the list of seen references. Otherwise, we use \citet.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{natbib}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{test1,
  author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B and Cuthor, C and Duthor, D},
  title = {Title},
  journal = {Journal},
  year = 2013
}
@article{test2,
  author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B and Cuthor, C and Duthor, D},
  title = {Title},
  journal = {Journal},
  year = 2012
}
\end{filecontents}


\newcommand{\citelist}{}

\newcounter{currentcite}
\newcounter{currentcitetotal}
\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{
  \setcounter{currentcitetotal}{0}
  \renewcommand{\do}[1]{\addtocounter{currentcitetotal}{1}}
  \docsvlist{#1}
  \renewcommand{\do}[1]{%
  \addtocounter{currentcite}{1}%
  \ifinlist{##1}{\citelist}
    {\citet{##1}}
    {\citet*{##1}\listadd{\citelist}{##1}}%
  \ifnumcomp{\value{currentcitetotal}}{>}{\value{currentcite}}
    {, }
    {}%
  }
  \docsvlist{#1}
}


\begin{document}

\mycite{test1,test2}

\mycite{test1}

\mycite{test2}


\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to cite full author name

Firstly create a dummy bibtex database having filename localbib.bib

\begin{filecontents}{localbib.bib}
    @book{  mykey,
        title = {The Title},
        year = {2013},
        author = {Doe, John},
        address = {Antarctica}
    }

\end{filecontents}

For the actual document, assuming `localbib.bib' as the database.

%Declare document class
\documentclass{article}

%Use Natbib and declare style options
\usepackage[numbers,square,sort&compress]{natbib}

%State database filename
\def\mybibtexdatabase{localbib} % <----- Change `localbib` here for your actual filename

%Import usebib package and declare the fields that can be used.
\usepackage{usebib}
\newbibfield{author} 
\newbibfield{address} 
\bibinput{\mybibtexdatabase}

%Now write the document    
\begin{document}
    %Example of usebibentry
    Example of field citation is that %
           \usebibentry{mykey}{author} is from \usebibentry{mykey}{address}, %
           the publication was made in \usebibentry{mykey}{year}\citep{mykey}

    %Existing methodology
    \citeauthor{mykey} is the standard name citation.

    %Bibliography
    \bibliographystyle{apacite}
    \bibliography{\mybibtexdatabase}
\end{document}

NOTE: In order to be able to use additional fields (ie for example doi, title, editor etc...) via the \usebibentry{KEY}{FIELD} command, a \newbibfield{FIELD} directive needs to be added to the preamble, just like it has been done ere for author and address.

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