[Tex/LaTex] Comma separator for \citet and semicolon separator for \citep (in the last reference with \citet)

natbibpunctuation

I need an answer about this problem and many of the accepted solution herein (StackExchange) do not work for me!

For example

The \citet command doesn't changes to add commas when there are multiple references and LaTeX keeps adding semicolons..

If I have \citet{Mark:2001a,John:2003a,Bob:2011b,Chris:2012a} -> I would like to get

Bob (2011), Chris (2012), Mark (2001) and John (2003)

Note, how LaTeX could add an and in the last reference as above – automatically?!

while if I have \citep{Mark:2001a,John:2003a,Bob:2011b,Chris:2012a} -> I would like to get

(Bob, 2011; Chris, 2012; Mark, 2001; John, 2003)

Thanks a ton for your answers!

Best Answer

Use \citet{Mark:2001a}, \citet{John:2003a}, \citet{Bob:2011b}, and \citet{Chris:2012a}

See for your \citep{} issue the Reference sheet for natbib usage from CTAN. http://tug.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/natnotes.pdf

=> Use the command \setcitestyle with a list of comma-separated keywords (without spaces) as argument ... . Between citations: semicolon or comma or citesep={char}

In your case: \setcitestyle{citesep={;}}

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[Tex/LaTex] A comma separator for \citet and a semicolon separator for \citep simultaneously

If I'm understanding what you want correctly, I think this should do it.

\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\bibstyle@comma{\bibpunct(),a,,}
\newcommand\bibstyle@semicolon{\bibpunct();a,,}
\makeatother

\pretocmd\citet{\citestyle{comma}}\relax\relax
\pretocmd\Citet{\citestyle{comma}}\relax\relax
\pretocmd\citep{\citestyle{semicolon}}\relax\relax
\pretocmd\Citep{\citestyle{semicolon}}\relax\relax

You could probably omit the \citestyle and just use \bibpunct directly.

[Tex/LaTex] citet and citep behaves like cite

The author-year citation style requires usage of BibTeX or specially formatted \bibitem commands.

If you don't want to use BibTeX, then you must hand format your thebibliography environment as in the following example.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}


\usepackage[sort&compress,square,comma,authoryear]{natbib}

% makes color citations
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,urlcolor=blue,citecolor=red,linkcolor=red,bookmarks=true]{hyperref}

% document begin
\begin{document}

% author and title
\title{My Article}
\author{Author Name}
\date{Today}
\maketitle

Blablabla said by \cite{lamport94} cite example. Blablabla said by \cite[p.~215]{impj} cite example. Blablabla said by \cite{fo,norman,lamport94} multiple cite example. Blablabla said by \nocite{lamport94} nocite example.
Blablabla said by \citep{lamport94} citep example. Blablabla said by \citet*{impj} citet example. Blablabla said by \citet{impj} citet example.

% this must be set to use natbib (citep, citet) but requires BibTeX
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

% number 99 determines how much citation can be included in file (maximum 99)
\begin{thebibliography}{99}

\bibitem[Lamport(1994)]{lamport94}
  Leslie Lamport,
  \emph{\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System}.
  Addison Wesley, Massachusetts,
  2nd Edition,
  1994.

\bibitem[Dower(1991)]{notes} John W. Dower {\em Readings compiled for History
  21.479.}  1991.

\bibitem[Japan Reader(1973)]{impj}  The Japan Reader {\em Imperial Japan 1800-1945} 1973:
  Random House, N.Y.

\bibitem[Norman(1940)]{norman} E. H. Norman {\em Japan's emergence as a modern
  state} 1940: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific
  Relations.

\bibitem[Wakabayashi(1986]{fo} Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi {\em Anti-Foreignism and Western
  Learning in Early-Modern Japan} 1986: Harvard University Press.

\end{thebibliography}



\end{document}

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Never pass explicit driver names to hyperref.

If you want a "mixed" system like "Author [number]", then you can say

\usepackage[sort&compress,square,comma,numbers]{natbib}

\DeclareRobustCommand{\citeext}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}~\cite{#1}}

and then \citeext{lamport} will give you

Lamport [1]

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