Can I use natbib with beamer?

Question

Can I somehow use natbib with beamer now? When I try to load the natbib package the file does not compile. There is some old evidence that there is a conflict here: Beamer and Natbib. But maybe this is now rectified?

Answer 1

Basic natbib use does work with beamer

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{Herrmann1999,
  Title                    = {Ruthenium carbene complexes with imidazolin-2-ylidene ligands allow the formation of tetrasubstituted cycloalkenes by RCM},
  Author                   = {Ackermann, Lutz and Fürstner, Alois and Weskamp, Thomas and Kohl, Florian J. and Herrmann, Wolfgang A.},
  Journal                  = {Tetrahedron Lett.},
  Year                     = {1999},
  Number                   = {26},
  Pages                    = {4787-4790},
  Volume                   = {40},
}

\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
 Hello world~\cite{Herrmann1999}
\end{frame}


\begin{frame}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Note that as Till says in the manual, references (certainly those in a 'bibliography' at the end) work poorly in a presentation. As such, functionality in this area is somewhat limited.