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I've got an article where the publisher is requiring I use a specific citation format. The bibtex style doesn't support author year, but throughout my document, I've been using \citet for textual references to the author's names.

I'm wondering, is there an alternative to citet that will automatically print the author's name and the reference number, but that doesn't require specific support from the bst style?

Joey Eremondi
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  • Basically no, I have written about the background and why in https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/459161/35864. There is the package usebib that could alternatively be used to extract data from the .bib file in TeX, but it doesn't do name fields, because they require complicated parsing. Your best bet is to modify the .bst file to support the author-year format. – moewe Nov 15 '18 at 06:44
  • Does the publisher provide a bst file that supports the required "look" of citation call-outs? A separate question: Is something stopping you from doing a global rename of \citet to \cite? – Mico Nov 15 '18 at 07:16
  • @Mico I've found a .bst someone else has made that mostly matches the publisher's format (DeGruyter), I've got a related question on how to modify it. If I renamed \citet to cite I would have a bunch of sentences that were missing author names, which would be odd. – Joey Eremondi Nov 15 '18 at 17:36
  • In some styles you can use \newcite – Ash Jan 21 '21 at 03:32

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