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I'm using the natbib package with agsm bibliography style.

I have two references which have the same first author and which were published in the same year. Both references have more than 10 authors.

Let's call them Smith2018a and Smith2018b.

When I do \citep{Smith2018a} it lists every single author (similarly for Smith2018b).

I would like to edit the agsm.bst file so that instead it outputs something like: (Smith et al. 2018a).

Does anyone know which bit of the agsm.bst file I need to edit and what I need to change it to?

Many thanks!

Mico
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  • Your problem is just a sorting problem. You named them Smith2018a and Smith2018b, but this has nothing to do with the output of \citep command and the output in the references section. If you look carefully the (Smith et al 2018b) of the \citep command is refer to the correct item. So, there is no bug... If you just looking for a way to sort the entries your way please edit your question to make it clear – koleygr Sep 09 '18 at 21:10
  • Did you see the posting AGSM bibliography style sometimes doesn't abbreviate to “et al.” for duplicate author+year? The output behavior you've encountered is very much a design feature of the agsm and dcu bibliography styles. If you don't like this behavior, you're probably best off switching to a different, less-funky bibliography style. – Mico Sep 09 '18 at 21:34
  • @koleygr - Actually, the agsm bibliography style's way of displaying the names of authors in a citation call-out is quite different from most other authoryear-type styles. – Mico Sep 09 '18 at 21:36
  • So I'm aware that it's not a bug and I only called it a "feature/bug" in jest... I would like to stick with agsm but edit the agsm.bst file to make it output as I would like. Any suggestions in this direction? – user350031 Sep 09 '18 at 22:02
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    Can you provide a minimal bib file for testing? – Zeping Lee Sep 10 '18 at 06:58
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    To achieve your overall objective, you could edit the functions format.lab.names.abbr, format.lab.names.full, make.full.label, and make.abbr.label in the file agsm.bst. Alternatively, you could run the makebst utility to create a bst file from scratch which (a) satisfies all of the your formatting requirements and (b) works perfectly with the natbib citation management package. BTW, the har2nat package should be loaded in order to make agsm work fully with natbib. I recommend the makebst route. – Mico Sep 10 '18 at 09:34

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