[Tex/LaTex] Show references in Author, Year, Title, Source, (other data) With Bibtex

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I would like to use Bibtex to write references and citations for work for my University.

I have got the LaTeX and BibTex combination down perfectly for referances bar one thing.

For the reference style, my University requires the following:

Surname, F(irstname).(YEAR) Title of referenced piece. Further data, eg, web URL, Place of publication, Publisher, Pages of article etc etc

For example, a reference must look like this:

Bloggs, J.(1940) The life of Pi. London:A Publisher

Using Bibtex, nattex with LaTeX i have achieved something mostly like this:

Bloggs, J. The Life of Pi. London: A Publisher. 2005

but I can't get the year to display after the author, it always displays right at the end of the referance.

How can I get the year to display after after the author in brackets?

Thanks.

Best Answer

I have solved this issue by using:

\bibliographystyle{apalike}

References now display exactly how I need them too.

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[Tex/LaTex] Natbib: LASTNAME, Firstname (Year) style

As I wrote in the comment biblatex offers a very user friendly solution.

The style authoryear accomplishes your request of ordering and style. To set a colon after the year you can redefine the separator \labelnamepunct:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber,maxcitenames=1]{biblatex}
\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Example cite \cite{companion}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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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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