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I'm using natbib, setcitestyle packages and agsm style. I want to italicize words "et al" so that they appear as "et al".

I have located and changed the agsm.bst file (5 instances of et~al to **\emph{et~al}**) and placed it in the same folder as my work. I have also pointed the biography style to new bst file. However, I see no change in citations.

I'm using TexStudio and Windows 8. I have gone through previous posts concerning this issue without success.

Previous posts on this issue:

Using natbib and plainnat - no year appears to some references and also et al. not in Italics

How to typeset 'et al.' in italic with the agsm bibliography style?

..and many others.

Please help.

MWE:

MinimumWorkingExample.tex:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, oneside]{Thesis}
\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{aysep={,}} 
\begin{document}
    Here is a minimum working example:

    Single author~\cite{yeung2007reducing}. In the second line, we provide an example of citing more than 3 authors so as to test of the words et al are italicized~\cite{samadi2010optimal}.
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{MWERef}
\end{document}

MWERef.bib File:

    @inproceedings{samadi2010optimal,
  title={Optimal real-time pricing algorithm based on utility maximization for smart grid},
  author={Samadi, Pedram and Mohsenian-Rad, Amir-Hamed and Schober, Robert and Wong, Vincent WS and Jatskevich, Juri},
  booktitle={Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2010 First IEEE International Conference on},
  pages={415--420},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE}
}
@article{yeung2007reducing,
  title={Reducing energy costs with peak shaving in industrial environments},
  author={Yeung, Phillip},
  journal={Schneider Electric, September},
  year={2007}
}

Output:

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Thanks for your comments guys. MWE works, but my thesis document still cannot italicize the words et al. I will have to look for conflicting packages in the thesis document because MWE contains fewer packages than the thesis document.

Mico
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Daniel J.
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    It must be \emph{et~al} not emph(et~al) (\ added and {…} instead of (…)). Have you run bibtex again? And do you mean \setcitestyle command? Can you please show us a minimal working example with bibliography and documentation of your changes? Currently we cannot reproduce the problem. – Schweinebacke Sep 02 '17 at 14:14
  • @Schweinebacke, what you have suggested is what I have done in the modified .bst file. I just made a mistake when posting here. Regarding \setcitestyle command, I have used it to separate author and year by a comma. Without the command, i get "(Schweinebacke 2017)", instead of "(Schweinebacke,2017)" – Daniel J. Sep 02 '17 at 15:06
  • @Mico, It is really a duplicate question, however solutions suggested in related various posts do not work for my case. I was wondering if you can help me identify what am doing wrongly. – Daniel J. Sep 02 '17 at 15:08
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    Please add/correct the information in the question! Questions should always be self-explaining without the need to read any comment! – Schweinebacke Sep 02 '17 at 15:11
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    @DanielJ. Can you please add a minimal working example with bibliography (MWEB)? – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Sep 02 '17 at 15:17
  • @DanielJ. - Have you performed a full recompile cycle (LaTeX, BibTeX, LaTeX twice more), to fully propagate the changes you made to the bibliography style file? – Mico Sep 02 '17 at 15:29
  • Your MWE loads the agsm bibliography style, which is known not to italicize the string "et al". Have you tried the adjustments recommended in the linked answers? – Mico Sep 02 '17 at 20:31
  • The posted MWE works, however my thesis document doesn't. Since MWE works, I believe I can be able to fix my thesis document. I guess I have conflicting packages in the thesis document that prevent agsm from working. This means I correctly changed the agsm.bst file. – Daniel J. Sep 02 '17 at 20:36

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