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I'm currently trying to format my references according to the DeGruyter Open Computer Science guidelines, and I've made a custom .bst file for this.

However, in my paper, I use natbib's citet a bunch, and while I need to print the citations themselves numerically, I rely heavily on citet's ability to retrieve the author name from the citation.

However, I'm currently getting (author?) printed any time I call citet.

What do I need to add to my .bst file to allow citet to print the author names?

Joey Eremondi
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    The specifics of a useful implementation will depend on the style, so I can't give a proper answer without having seen the full .bst file. But my answer to https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/439309/35864 shows roughly what you need to do. You need to inject author-date information into the optional argument of \bibitem. (For background see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/459161/35864 as linked in your other question.) See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82569/35864, but as I say the exact modifications needed are style-dependent. – moewe Nov 15 '18 at 21:02
  • Any news here? Could you solve your problem? If you are still interested in an answer, it would really help if you could show us your entire .bst file and a short example document. – moewe Nov 21 '18 at 14:41

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In the end, the easiest thing was to make a new .bst file with makebst, that replicated the style of the original .bst, but had author-year support enabled.

Basically, my understanding is that how author-year support is implemented is bst-specific, so there's no generic way to add it to an existing package.

Joey Eremondi
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