Extract authors name from a bibtex entry

Question

I have a bibtex list of references and i would like to get the authors' names from a specific entry in my .bib file. Is there a command for that?

Something like \getauthorname{<bibentry>}? – Werner Feb 05 '13 at 01:44 — Werner, Feb 05 '13 at 01:44
Related: Command line tool to extract .bib entry by key? – Werner Feb 05 '13 at 03:03 — Werner, Feb 05 '13 at 03:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 09:48

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You could use the natbib package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{docuemnt}

\citeauthor{smith90}

\bibliography{bibliography.bib}
\end{document}

answered Feb 05 '13 at 09:48

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