Is it possible to use natbib
together with the alpha
style? It doesn't seem to be supported directly in the natbib
package. What I mean is that there is no specific alpha
-like natbib
style, and if I use alpha
directly I lose the possibility of citing author names and such with \citet
... Does anybody know of an alpha
style that would work with natbib
?
1 Answer
Here's a solution using biblatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
author = {Author, A.},
year = {2001},
title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Some text about \citet{A01}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
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3I appreciate this answer, but I have the same question and biblatex doesn't work with the journal style file I'm dealing with. So I would appreciate an answer that doesn't use biblatex.– ThomasCommented Apr 8, 2021 at 18:21
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Thx, this gave me the final impulse to switch to biblatex with the help of tex.stackexchange.com/a/5105/84434 and I am now happy with a more streamlined and elegant setup– F1iXCommented Jun 9, 2023 at 10:40
alpha.bst
, or do you mean some variant of author-year citation styles? If it's the former, he style fileplainnat.bst, which is distributed with
natbib, should serve your needs. Separately, have you actually tried to use the
alpha` style file together withnatbib
?