[OS X TeX] BibTeX and the year-field

[Alex Speed Kjeldsen]

Thanks, Allan, for your advice:-) I will try this!

Alex

Den 17/09/2006 kl. 15.37 skrev Alan Munn:

> At 4:28 PM +0000 9/17/06, Alex Speed Kjeldsen wrote:
>> This is my first post to this list.
>>
>> I have just started using BibTeX and have a problem with the year- 
>> field when a book has been published over more years.
>>
>> Cf. the following entry:
>>
>> @Article{ha3334,
>>   author =	 {Andersen, Harry},
>>   title =	 {Nogle sproghistoriske Bidrag},
>>   journal =	 {Acta Philologica Scandinavica},
>>   year =	 {1933-1934},
>>   key =	 {},
>>   volume =	 {8},
>>   number =	 {},
>>   pages =	 {57-77},
>>   month =	 {},
>>   note =	 {},
>>   annote =	 {}
>> }
>>
>> When I write " year = {1933-1934},"  like this (I use XeLaTeX),  
>> the output is fine in the bibliography list, but in the actual  
>> text in the article the reference just says "Andersen (1934)" (I  
>> use the "natlib" package with the "apalike" style).
>
> I don't know a direct answer to this problem, but I suspect that  
> the apalike.bst is not designed to work with natbib.  I use an APA  
> like style that I created myself using makebst and it handles your  
> date problem correctly.  When I substitute the apalike bst for  
> mine, your problem appears.
>
> So perhaps the quickest fix would be to create your own APA-like  
> bst with makebst.
>
> Alan
>
>
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