[Tex/LaTex] Use citeauthor with a bibliography style other than plainnat

bibliographiescitingnatbib

I am trying to use \citeauthor from the natbib package with a bibliography style that is provided by a journal. Is this possible? I looked at plainnat.bst, but I didn't see any instances of \citeauthor that I was hoping to just copy into mystyle.bst.

I saw this thread:
Using \citeauthor in custom bibliography style

but don't understand the solution.

Here are some demo tex/bib files:
http://daviddoria.com/Uploads/Bibtex/

When I use \bibliographystyle{ieee}, I get "author undefined" errors on the \citeauthor lines. It works fine if I use \bibliographystyle{plainnat}.

Is it possible to use \citeauthor with this IEEE style?

Best Answer

The answer is no: natbib needs specially shaped bibliography styles for being able to extract the authors' names.

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[Tex/LaTex] Harvard Style Citation and Bibliography

In this example I used \parencite{key} to put some parenthesis around the in text citation.

mythesis.tex

\documentclass[bibtotocnumbered]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{library.bib}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage

Some text to cite here \parencite[23]{Lin1973}. 
Another text to cite here \parencite[123]{Goedel1930}.

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}

library.bib

% This file was created with JabRef 2.9.2.
% Encoding: UTF8    

@BOOK{Goedel1930,
  title = {Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls},
  publisher = {Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik},
  year = {1930},
  author = {Kurt Gödel},
  address = {Wien}
}    

@ARTICLE{Lin1973,
  author = {Shen Lin and Brian W. Kernighan},
  title = {An Effective Heuristic Algorithm for the Travelling-Salesman Problem},
  journal = {Operations Research},
  year = {1973},
  volume = {21},
  pages = {498--516}
}

My Workflow:

pdflatex mythesis
biber mythesis
pdflatex mythesis
pdflatex mythesis

To edit your .bib file I would recommend you a reference manager like JabRef.

Make sure your files are encoded in UTF8.

[Tex/LaTex] Add numbering to references

The following code seems to do what you are looking for. Since you're using a your own .bst file, you'd need to change that in the example and replace the demo .bib files with your own. It's much easier to do this with biblatex (see Adding numbers to Author Year citations in list of references for an example.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref,url}
\newcounter{bibcount}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@lbibitem}{\item[}{\item[\hfil\stepcounter{bibcount}{\thebibcount.}}{}{}
\setlength{\bibhang}{2\parindent}
\renewcommand\NAT@bibsetup%
   [1]{\setlength{\leftmargin}{\bibhang}\setlength{\itemindent}{-\parindent}%
       \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibsep}\setlength{\parsep}{\z@}}
\makeatother
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\begin{document}
\cite{*}
\bibliography{%
/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-bib-ex/articles,/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-bib-ex/books}
\end{document}

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