bmc-mathphys - how to generate a nameyear citation?

Question

Here's my tex file:

\documentclass{article}

\bibliographystyle{bmc-mathphys}
\begin{document}
\nocite{JEF_5G}
\bibliography{my_ref}
\end{document}

Below is bib:

@PREAMBLE{}

@String { AER  = {American Economic Review} }
@String { JIMF = {Journal of International Money and Finance} }


@Article{JEF_5G,
  Title                    = {What Will {5G} Be?},
  Author                   = {Jeffrey G. Andrews and Stefano Buzzi and Wan Choi and Stephen Hanly and Angel Lozano and Anthony C. K. Soong and Jianzhong Charlie Zhang},
  Journal                  = {IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., Special Issue on 5G Communication Systems},
  Year                     = {2014},
  Note                     = {{{doi}: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328098}},
  Number                   = {6},
  Pages                    = {1065-1081},
  Volume                   = {32},

  Owner                    = {kenadams},
  Timestamp                = {2014.08.14}
}

Your MWE is incomplete, see Using option for bibliography style — Fato39, Apr 10 '15 at 09:23
Or not perhaps. I'm not familiar either with this bibliography style or document class, but managed to get author-year citation nevertheless. See my answer. — Fato39, Apr 10 '15 at 09:42

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '15 at 09:48

2

To quote from bmc-mathphys.bst:

% Settings:
% It's possible to pass few options to bibtex style via @settings reference. 
% To validate options, need to write that reference (@settings) citeing key (f.e: \citation{foo}) 
% to aux file. From tex file it can be done with \nocite{} command.
%
% Examples:
%     1) To make unsorted bibliography (bibs listed as cited)  
%         a) write to bib file:
%             @settings{label, options="unsort"}
%         b) write in tex file \nocite{label}
%     
%     2) To make author-year bibliography
%         a) write to bib file:
%             @settings{label, options="nameyear"}
%         b) write in tex file \nocite{label}
%     
%     3) To make alphanumerical unsorted bibliography (bibs listed as cited)  
%         a) write to bib file:
%             @settings{label, options="alpha,unsort"}
%         b) write in tex file \nocite{label}
% 
% By default, style produces unsorted bibliography.

Following the instructions under 2), I get with your MWE: MWE compiled

However, LuaLaTeX produces a non-fatal error. You haven't specified what (bibliography) compiler you are using, so I haven't investigated further.

answered Apr 10 '15 at 09:48

Fato39

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I'm using a WinEDT. – jeecabz Apr 11 '15 at 05:30
@jeecabz WinEDT is a (LaTeX editor)[http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides]. I was wondering what compiler you use, when you want to produce the final document (usually DVI od pdf). Some of the popular options are: pdfLaTeX, XeTeX, LuaLaTeX. Additionally, have you tried my solution? Did it work for you? – Fato39 Apr 11 '15 at 08:14
1

I used pdflatex then bibtex in generating bbl file.. – jeecabz Apr 14 '15 at 04:38
@jeecabz I see. So does the following MWE work for you: `\documentclass{article} \usepackage{natbib} \bibliographystyle{bmc-mathphys}
```
\begin{document}
 Here \cite{JEF_5G}
 \nocite{label}
 \bibliography{my_ref}
\end{document}`
```
AFTER adding @settings{label, options="unsort"} to your .bib file?
– Fato39 Apr 14 '15 at 09:22
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Now, I found out.. %%%%% setting default options FUNCTION {set.default.opt} {"nameyear" 'list.string :=} – jeecabz Apr 15 '15 at 07:41
Changing the default option should indeed work as well. – Fato39 Apr 15 '15 at 07:45
I get this working, but then I have two warning messages: (1) There were undefined citations; (2) Citation `label' undefined. I wonder what to do to avoid the warnings. – Aryo Jan 13 '21 at 00:21
@Aryo, that was probably because of \nocite{label}? I would simply ignore these warnings. – Fato39 Jan 13 '21 at 10:00
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@Fato39, yes I think so too. The compiler pointed the command, which causes the warning, is \nocite{label}. Because in the bib file there is no citation entry that labelled label. For now, I ignored the warnings. – Aryo Jan 16 '21 at 22:36

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