When writing a sociological paper rather than a science paper, they prefer to
use the American Psychology Association (APA) format for citations. In order to
make this format work, you must include the LaTeX module natbib
so that the
author names can be handled correctly.
But natbib
is a re-implementation of \cite
, so following lists what can be
done when natbib
is included:
Options at \usepackage
Syntax:
\usepackage[comma-separated-options]{natbib}
Option list:
- style of presentation:
authoryear
(default): author-year typenumbers
: author and a sequence numbersuper
: author and a superscripted sequence numbernonamebreak
: no line-break within a citation
- brackets:
round
(default): use parenthesissquare
: use square bracketscurly
: use bracesangle
: use angle brackets
- style of multiple citation:
sort
: sort by order of appearance in bibliographic listsort&compress
: and additionally, compress numerics like IEEE (if applicable)longnamesfirst
: first one in full author list and subsequent in abbreviated listcolon
(default): use colons for separationcomma
: use comma for separation
- bibliographic list:
sectionbib
: use\section*
instead of\chapter*
for\thebibliography
(see chapterbib package)
Commands
Citation commands:
\citet
- name et al (year)\citep
- (name et al, year)\citet*
- name and name and name (year)\citep*
- (name and name and name, year)
Optionally, you can put options to append some text before and after the citation, e.g.
\citep[see][sec 1]{tag}
gives: (see somebody, year, sec 1)
Alternative citation commands:
\citealt
- same as\citet
, but without parenthesis\citealp
- same as\citep
, but without parenthesis\citealt*
- same as\citet*
, but without parenthesis\citealp*
- same as\citep*
, but without parenthesis\citeauthor
- just the author\citeauthor*
- just the author in full list\citeyear
- just the year without parenthesis\citeyearpar
- just the year in parenthesis