I have a problem where I didn't find any solution even after hours of googling. I have two references where three of the authors are the same (BibTeX file with Mendeley):
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{url} \let\harvardurl\url
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{Mendeley.bib}
@article{Attanasio2015a,
title = {Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India},
year = {2015},
journal = {NBER Working Paper Series},
author = {Attanasio, Orazio and Meghir, Costas and Nix, Emily},
volume = {21740}
}
@article{Attanasio2015b,
title = {{Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from
Randomized Control Trial in Colombia}},
year = {2015},
journal = {NBER Working Paper Series},
author = {Attanasio, Orazio and Cattan, Sarah and Fitzsimons, Emla and Meghir,Costas and Rubio-Codina, Marta},
volume = {20965}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}
..... \cite{Attanasio2015a} \cite{Attanasio2015b}
\bibliography{Mendeley}
\end{document}
Now, when referencing those two sources, I want them to appear as
Attanasio et al. (2015a) and Attanasio et al (2015b).
However, when using agsm
as bibliographystyle I get the full list of authors instead of
XY et al. (2015a) / XY et al. (2015b).
I already read here that apparently agsm
does not support this sort of citation. But he same problem occurs with other Harvard styles like dcu
and kluwer
and even chicago
. The only thing so far that works is using apalike
.
I'm fairly new to LaTex but I feel like there must be a solution for this problem? I've never seen this way of citation in a journal article and I don't believe the authors use apalike
all the time.
Best Answer
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.
Not just "apparently" -- it simply does not. It's not a bug, it's a "feature".
Indeed.
Assuming you're not free to use the
apalike
bibliography style -- Aside: What do you mean by "I don't believe the authors useapalike
all the time"? Which authors? -- you could try theelsarticle-harv
andabbrvnat
bibliography styles. In the answer below, I use theelsarticle-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
, withtype = {Working Paper}
,institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research}
, andnumber
instead ofvolume
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).