Some BibTeX styles use \biband
, or similar, instead of "and". You can have a look into the .bbl
file to see if this is the case, and then renew that command to "y" in the main document.
If, instead, the BibTeX style writes a literal "and" in the .bbl
, you are out of luck. In this case I would recommend you to create a customized BibTeX style using custom-bib
. To do so, run the command:
$ tex makebst
and then answer a lot of questions about how do you want your bibliography. Give the answers that are consistent with the Chicago style you used to use. When asked about the "and", choose the \biband
option. After all questions have been answered, you'll get a .bst
file, which is the custom style you should use (\bibliographystyle
).
It's not clear from your write-up if you have to satisfy any particular formatting guidelines for the bibliographic entries. All you've stated, really, is that the citation call-outs must be of the author-year type.
I already read here that apparently agsm
does not support this sort of citation.
Not just "apparently" -- it simply does not. It's not a bug, it's a "feature".
But [t]he same problem occurs with other [h]arvard styles like dcu
and kluwer
...
Indeed.
Assuming you're not free to use the apalike
bibliography style -- Aside: What do you mean by "I don't believe the authors use apalike
all the time"? Which authors? -- you could try the elsarticle-harv
and abbrvnat
bibliography styles. In the answer below, I use the elsarticle-harv
style.
By the way, as I've already noted in a comment, it is utterly wrong to use the @article
entry type for the two working papers at hand. The NBER working paper series is not a "journal", at least not in the usual (academic) sense of the word. You (and/or Mendeley?!) should be using the entry type @techreport
, with type = {Working Paper}
, institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research}
, and number
instead of volume
for the numbers of the working papers.
Finally, be careful to encase words such as "India" and "Colombia" in curly braces, to prevent BibTeX from converting them to lowercase if "sentence style" is in use. (The opposite of "sentence style" is "title style".) If Mendeley doesn't place curly braces around "India" and "Colombia", it is your duty and responsibility to do so by hand. The excuse "I use bib entries exactly as they are provided by Mendeley" is quite lame, and it won't get you very far. And, do check diligently if the information provided by Mendeley is actually correct (and complete). If you just assume that the information is correct, you're going to get a rude awakening sooner or later -- probably sooner. I've already mentioned the issue of the incorrect entry type. Another problem I noticed in the the two entries you posted is that the title
field in one of the entries is missing a word ("a", in case you're curious).
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{Mendeley.bib}
@techreport{Attanasio2015a,
title = {Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in {India}},
year = 2015,
type = {Working Paper},
institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research},
author = {Attanasio, Orazio and Meghir, Costas and Nix, Emily},
number = 21740,
}
@techreport{Attanasio2015b,
title = {Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: {Results} from a Randomized Control Trial in {Colombia}},
year = 2015,
type = {Working Paper},
institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research},
author = {Attanasio, Orazio and Cattan, Sarah and Fitzsimons, Emla and Meghir, Costas and Rubio-Codina, Marta},
number = 20965,
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage[hyphens,spaces,obeyspaces]{url}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
%\bibliographystyle{apalike} % is there something wrong with this bib style?
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}
% or: \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\begin{document}
\cite{Attanasio2015b} and \cite{Attanasio2015a} \dots
\cite{Attanasio2015b,Attanasio2015a} \dots
\bibliography{Mendeley}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Concerning losing
\possessivecite
This worked for me.
Rough syntax: