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I am having a problem with my references, the error message is

Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.

I have stripped down all tex and references files however I still have the same problem.

I have tried the following:

  • Delete all the temp file. I am using WinEdt8
  • I have year in my reference
  • Using \citet instead of \cite
  • Try \usepackage[square,sort,comma,numbers]{natbib}

It will be much help you can help point out where did I went wrong :(

Here are the content of the files

.tex file:

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\begin{document}
Text here

\citet{Ioannou2001}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{reference}

\end{document}

.bib file (with only one record)

    @ARTICLE{Ioannou2001,
      author = {Ioannou, G and Kritikos, M and Prastacos, G},
      title = {A greedy look-ahead heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with
  time windows},
      journal = {J Oper Res Soc},
      year = {2001},
      volume = {52},
      pages = {523--537},
      number = {5},
      month = apr,
      __markedentry = {[duongh:6]},
      issn = {0160-5682},
      owner = {d},
      publisher = {Palgrave Publishers Ltd},
      timestamp = {2013.03.29},
      url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601113}
    }
Marco Daniel
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    The problem is with the use of IEEEtrans style which produces \bibitems that are not compatible with the natbib style. In addition IEEEtrans is a numeric citation format. – Guido Jul 01 '13 at 02:04

2 Answers2

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The bibliography style IEEtran was developed for the class IEEEtran. All the settings are done for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. By default there is no compatibility for natbib. However the authors of IEEtran provides an extra bibliography style which is compatible with natbib and provides the same formatting as IEEtran. This style is called IEEEtranN. As the default style the style IEEEtranN is a numerical style and so you need the option numbers for the package natbib. The example below uses IEEEtranN and results to

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{reference.bib}
@ARTICLE{Ioannou2001,
      author = {Ioannou, G and Kritikos, M and Prastacos, G},
      title = {A greedy look-ahead heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows},
      journal = {J Oper Res Soc},
      year = {2001},
      volume = {52},
      pages = {523--537},
      number = {5},
      month = apr,
      __markedentry = {[duongh:6]},
      issn = {0160-5682},
      owner = {d},
      publisher = {Palgrave Publishers Ltd},
      timestamp = {2013.03.29},
      url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601113}
    }
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\begin{document}
Text here

\citet{Ioannou2001}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN}
\bibliography{reference}

\end{document}
Marco Daniel
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I would recommend you switch to biblatex with biber as backend. Load biblatex 

    \usepackage[%
        backend=biber,
        style=ieee,
        natbib=true,
        backref=false,
        backrefstyle=all+,
        hyperref=true,
    ]{biblatex}

Load your .bibfile

\addbibresource{BIBFILENAME} % enter with .bib extension

Both in your preamble.

Then print the bibliography where you want it using

\nocite{*} 

\printbibliography

\nocite{*} loads all the references in your .bib file.

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