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Currently, when displaying my references without natbib, it's appearing like 

[Sin01]

and this is how I want it to be.

However, to get the et al. function, I'm having to include the natbib and change the bibliography style to plainnat. When doing this, I'm getting loads of problem.

My cite are turning like this Singhal [2001].

Any idea how I could solve this?

Mico
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Noor
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    You may have a look on the natbibmanual: ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/natbib.pdf It is explained at the end of Section 2.7 and at the end of section 3.1. I tried to get it working but did not succeed. Also there was a similar question before. What you want to have is the alpha-citation style: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35306/use-natbib-with-alpha-style I hope this helps you. – Dave Mar 10 '13 at 23:50
  • is there any difference between biblatex and bibtex?? – Noor Mar 11 '13 at 00:06
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    Yes there is. Natbib is using bibtex as its backend and compared to biblatex, natbib has some limitations, which become important in some cases, like proper footnote citations and some other stuff. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25701/bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib for more info. – aignas Mar 11 '13 at 00:13
  • so if i understand, if I use biblatex, my citation cannot be of the same style as bibtex, i'll have to change the format of all my references? – Noor Mar 11 '13 at 00:38
  • bibtex (without "la") and biber are backends: applications which can process (sort) a bib file. natbib and biblatex (with "la") are LaTeX-packages. So one of your choice is to drop natbib+bibtex and use biblatex+biber or biblatex+bibtex instead. With biblatex+biber you will be able to get the style you want, but the change can take time. You can also continue to use natbib and try to find or create (with custom-bib) a suitable bibliography style. – Ulrike Fischer Mar 11 '13 at 08:43
  • i think its much more easier to write the et al manually then, – Noor Mar 11 '13 at 08:55

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