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I am trying to achieve the following using the natbib package but have not have much luck. I have an author whom I am citing a lot and at some point I would the citation in the text to be in the following format:

Einstein (1991 & 1995)

Is there a way to achieve this using the \cite command of natbib or am I asking for something too involved?

As always, many thanks for your time and help!

Mico
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Orest Xherija
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Since you're using the natbib citation management package, you could provide the instruction

\setcitestyle{yysep={ \&}}

in the preamble (after loading natbib) to achieve your objective.

A word of caution, though: The result may look appealing if there are only two bib items being cited; however, the result will look increasingly bad if three, four, or even more items with a common author are being cited with one \citet instruction.

Mico
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  • Many thanks! I suppose there is no way to handle this on a case-by-case basis, as in having this option only in the citations that you want. – Orest Xherija Nov 11 '15 at 08:55
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    Not if you want a natbib-based solution (or aren't looking to hack the natbib package in significant ways...). Just in case you care for my personal view on this formatting issue: In view of the fact that using a comma to separate years in author-year citation call-outs is nearly universal practice, I think very little is to be gained from deviating from the default. – Mico Nov 11 '15 at 08:59