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I have two questions, I am using Bibtex and Harvard style for my bibliography, everything works really good except from two things,

@InBook{Intro2,
author = {Yong, J.},
title = {Recent Developments in Mathematical Finance},
chapter = {19},
publisher = {World Scientific},
year = {2002},
}

If for the above example I want to remove the chapter because I have taken other parts from the book, Latex does not let me, I have an error saying that I have to insert chapter.

Secondly,

@Article{Ph2,
author = {Fackrell, M.},
title = {Modelling healthcare systems with phase-type distributions},
journal = {Volume 12, Number 1, Pages 11-26},
year = {2009},
}

for the above example I am using an article and in my paper I do not have italics for the title of the article but for the journal as shown below:

M. Fackrell. Modelling healthcare systems with phase-type distributions. Volume 12, Number 1, Pages 11-26, 2009.

Mico
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  • Which bibbliography style do you use? Depending on the bibliography style, the chapter field may be required for entries of type @inbook, and that's why BibTeX will report an error. If you want to refer to a different chapter of the book, you should consider creating a separate entry, while leaving the entry with key Intro2 as it is. – Mico Sep 11 '12 at 14:46
  • I am using exactly what kurt said me http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66941/problem-with-bibliography-in-harvard-style/66952#comment142574_66952 In this address,his answer!! thanks – Vangelis Sep 11 '12 at 14:52
  • I've checked @Kurt's answer that you cross-reference. It appears to use the natbib citation package rather than the harvard package; I thus fail to see its applicability to your new question. Or are you, in fact, using the natbib package? If so, please edit your question to incorporate this fact. – Mico Sep 11 '12 at 15:01
  • yes, you are correct, I am using natbib package, because I did not know how to use the Harvard package, and it looked ok,but now I have these problems and I do not know how to solve them – Vangelis Sep 11 '12 at 15:07

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(This answer incorporates the OP's comments that the natbib package, rather than the harvard package, is used. Furthermore, it assumes that a bibliography style such as plainnat or unsrtnat is used.)

You're dealing with two separate problems. If I understand your first issue correctly, you run into problems if you eliminate the chapter field from the entry with key Intro2. This is because for entries of type @inbook and a bibliography style such as unsrtnat, the chapter field is required; if it's omitted an error message is generated. If you want to refer to the entire book, rather than just to one specific chapter, please consider creating a new entry, of type @book, along the following lines:

@Book{yong:02,
    author = {Yong, J.},
    title = {Recent Developments in Mathematical Finance},
    publisher = {World Scientific},
    year = {2002},
}

You can then cite the entire piece with a command such as \citet{yong:02}. If you want to draw attention to a specific chapter -- say, chapter 12 -- in your citation, you could issue the command \citet[ch.~12]{yong:02} to do so: this will generate the citation Yong (2012, ch.~12). The ~ (tilde) serves as a "tie" to prevent a line break between "ch." and "12".

The second problem arises because (i) the journal name is currently not provided in the entry and (ii) the journal field instead contains information that should be provided in volume, number, and pages fields. A corrected entry might look like this:

@Article{Ph2,
    author = {Fackrell, M.},
    title = {Modelling healthcare systems with phase-type distributions},
    journal = {Health Care Management Science},
    volume = 12, 
    number = 1, 
    pages = {11-26},
    year = {2009},
}
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  • @Vangelis - I'm glad everything's working for you now. Feel free to "accept" (by clicking on the check-mark symbol) my answer. :-) – Mico Sep 12 '12 at 01:28