Merging different citation systems (Copernicus)

Question

I want to publish a paper, but the paper in their LaTeX mask uses a completely different citation system than I do.

The mask of the paper is: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/copernicus-publications-manuscript-preparation-template-for-latex-submissions/xmgtnrsvtptt

using the citation system:

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem[AUTHOR(YEAR)]{LABEL1}
REFERENCE 1
\bibitem[AUTHOR(YEAR)]{LABEL2}
REFERENCE 2
\end{thebibliography}
However, I have always used the system:
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{literature}
\printbibliography

and my bibliography looks like this:

@article{insert,
  title={Temperature and precipitation effects on the isotopic composition of global precipitation reveal long-term climate dynamics},
  author={Vystavna, Y and Matiatos, I and Wassenaar, LI},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  volume={11},
  number={1},
  pages={1--9},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}

However, Copernicus offers the following:

But when I activate this everything crashes and I can't even see the errors!

The suggestion in those comments is obviously completely wrong. — egreg, Apr 03 '23 at 10:23
Yes: \bibliographystyle should not be used with biblatex and \printbibliography is a biblatex command. Unless the copernicus package does something strange. — egreg, Apr 03 '23 at 10:42
Thank you so much I am a bit frustrated as the work is almost done but I can't manage the citations :) — Weiss, Apr 03 '23 at 10:47
Remove the thebibliography environment, put \bibliographystyle{copernicus} and \bibliography{mybibfile} where you want the bibliography to appear. Locally you will need to follow this answer and run latex and bibtex a few times, on Overleaf bibtex should run automatically. This should either work or give a clear error, if something is crashing please confirm which editor you're using. — Dai Bowen, Apr 03 '23 at 14:22
thank you very much that helped that half of the quotes are printed i will check again what is with the other half :) — Weiss, Apr 03 '23 at 14:39

moewe · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-05T06:57:33.310

The copernicus class uses a natbib-based citation/bibliography setup. (Weirdly though v10.1.4 [2022/12/05] of the class checks if the natbib package is available, loads it if it is available and continues with a warning if it isn't. This could lead to very inconsistent results on different systems without a helpful error message.)

This means it is incompatible with biblatex and its \printbibliography command.

The linked template suggests two possible approaches for citations and the bibliography.

You can either manually curate your bibliography with thebibliography as in

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem[AUTHOR(YEAR)]{LABEL1}
REFERENCE 1
\bibitem[AUTHOR(YEAR)]{LABEL2}
REFERENCE 2
\end{thebibliography}

See for example the "basic approach" in this survey answer.

Or you can use a BibTeX-based approach.

If you have a .bib file, you will want to use a BibTeX-based solution. In that case, remove all references to biblatex, \addbibresource and \printbibliography from your document. Then place

\bibliographystyle{copernicus}
\bibliography{<your bib file name without file extension>}

where you want your bibliography to show up (where previously you had \printbibliography with biblatex).

The following is a fully working example document using the class with citations

\documentclass[sand, manuscript]{copernicus}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum \citep{article-full}
\bibliographystyle{copernicus}
\bibliography{xampl}
\end{document}

Note that a document like this needs to be compiled with BibTeX (and not with Biber, as biblatex-based documents). See Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number. Overleaf will do that for you automatically. If you compile on your own machine, you may have to tell your editor to do that.

Merging different citation systems (Copernicus)

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