natbib does not properly show author-year

Question

I imported natbib properly:

\usepackage{natbib}

Now, when citing in the parenthetical style:

\citep[p. 12]{MyKey}

, where I am sure that my key exists and the author and year are set, in the pdf output it still shows

(1, p.12)

However, I would like to see

(Author Year, p.12)

Did I miss something?

Also, doing

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}

doesn't help.

This behaviour depends on the bibliography style in use: which are you using? — Joseph Wright, Sep 08 '11 at 12:39

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 24 '12 at 17:50

10

Sorry, but I already solved it. The solution is to use the right bibliographystyle, namely:

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

Now it works.

edited May 24 '12 at 17:50

egreg

answered Sep 08 '11 at 12:42

ptikobj

Does natbib support any other bibliography styles or only this one? – ptikobj Sep 08 '11 at 12:49
2

Natbib (latest version: 8.31b, 2010/09/13) comes with the following three bib style (.bst) files: plainnat, unsrtnat, and abbrevnat. However, it is so flexible that it supports most all bst files out there, even the ones that come with (original) BibTeX (i.e., plain.bst, abbrev.bst, and abbrev.bst). It supports both numeric and author-year citation systems. If you can't find a bibliography style file that meets your specific needs, the tex file makebst.tex (written by the author of natbib) lets you create a new one from scratch. – Mico Sep 08 '11 at 13:10

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