Showing a .tex file from 2018 to students:
"biblatex and natbib are both loaded in the preamble, a reminder of the handcrafted imperfections of the artist"
"biblatex and natbib are both loaded in the preamble, a reminder of the handcrafted imperfections of the artist"
Before generative AI, I spent a lot of time learning the nuances of LaTeX and Beamer: how to get slides to look right, how to fix obscure compilation issues. It was frustrating at times, but also genuinely educational. I do think something might be lost for the next generation.
April 11, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Showing a .tex file from 2018 to students:
"biblatex and natbib are both loaded in the preamble, a reminder of the handcrafted imperfections of the artist"
"biblatex and natbib are both loaded in the preamble, a reminder of the handcrafted imperfections of the artist"
Natbib? Nobody can afford that!
And the LLM reviewer does not care 😁
And the LLM reviewer does not care 😁
May 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Natbib? Nobody can afford that!
And the LLM reviewer does not care 😁
And the LLM reviewer does not care 😁
warst du das gerade an der NatBib
@kurierprinzessin.bsky.social ?
@kurierprinzessin.bsky.social ?
March 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
warst du das gerade an der NatBib
@kurierprinzessin.bsky.social ?
@kurierprinzessin.bsky.social ?
Listen, Natbib. I don't know you. I don't like you. But it looks like you and I are both stuck with the same LaTeX document, and it doesn't look like this is gonna change, so let's try and work together, shall we?
November 9, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Listen, Natbib. I don't know you. I don't like you. But it looks like you and I are both stuck with the same LaTeX document, and it doesn't look like this is gonna change, so let's try and work together, shall we?
I'm excited to report that "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been conditionally accepted at BJPS. I learned how to be a political scientist by iterating versions of this paper. The next thing this paper will teach me is how to use natbib.
February 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm excited to report that "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been conditionally accepted at BJPS. I learned how to be a political scientist by iterating versions of this paper. The next thing this paper will teach me is how to use natbib.
Show some love to your readers and reviewers and use pagebackref in hyperref in your paper.
Also natbib is really nice if you can afford the space.
Also natbib is really nice if you can afford the space.
May 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Show some love to your readers and reviewers and use pagebackref in hyperref in your paper.
Also natbib is really nice if you can afford the space.
Also natbib is really nice if you can afford the space.
latex の文献引用をいい感じにしたいと常々思っていたが、人から natbib パッケージを教えていただいて幸せになった
January 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
latex の文献引用をいい感じにしたいと常々思っていたが、人から natbib パッケージを教えていただいて幸せになった
Seems like the main bottleneck there is probably lack of support for multiple first authors in citation standards (e.g. bibtex, RIS, etc.) and citation managers. If it were easy to push a button or add a natbib setting and get this behavior I bet a lot of people would do it
January 3, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Seems like the main bottleneck there is probably lack of support for multiple first authors in citation standards (e.g. bibtex, RIS, etc.) and citation managers. If it were easy to push a button or add a natbib setting and get this behavior I bet a lot of people would do it
tufte 0.15.0 on CRAN 🎉
Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF).
Old 📦 still deserve some ❤️
New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset.
Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more.
github.com/rstudio/tuft...
Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF).
Old 📦 still deserve some ❤️
New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset.
Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more.
github.com/rstudio/tuft...
A Tufte Handout Example
rstudio.github.io
May 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM
tufte 0.15.0 on CRAN 🎉
Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF).
Old 📦 still deserve some ❤️
New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset.
Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more.
github.com/rstudio/tuft...
Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF).
Old 📦 still deserve some ❤️
New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset.
Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more.
github.com/rstudio/tuft...
And don't forget the British National Bibliography (BNB), 75 years young this year! Search at https://bl.natbib-lod.org/
More info: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/11/british-national-bibliography-resumes-publication.html
#OpenData #OpenGLAM #libraries #metadata
More info: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/11/british-national-bibliography-resumes-publication.html
#OpenData #OpenGLAM #libraries #metadata
The British National Bibliography · Search national bibliography data for people, organizations, works and subjects
NatBib-LOD lets you search the national bibliographies of several national libraries
bl.natbib-lod.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
And don't forget the British National Bibliography (BNB), 75 years young this year! Search at https://bl.natbib-lod.org/
More info: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/11/british-national-bibliography-resumes-publication.html
#OpenData #OpenGLAM #libraries #metadata
More info: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/11/british-national-bibliography-resumes-publication.html
#OpenData #OpenGLAM #libraries #metadata
Weeping inconsolably as I realise just how many journals still use bibtex+natbib...
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Weeping inconsolably as I realise just how many journals still use bibtex+natbib...
I did a PhD so I could study things that I find interesting and important in the way that I want, ask all the questions I want, get paid to read and write, AND so that I could spend my lunch hour fiddling with the natbib package trying to format page numbers in multiple citations. Obviously.
April 2, 2024 at 10:57 AM
I did a PhD so I could study things that I find interesting and important in the way that I want, ask all the questions I want, get paid to read and write, AND so that I could spend my lunch hour fiddling with the natbib package trying to format page numbers in multiple citations. Obviously.
Are you sure? Maybe natbib is the secret sauce that makes the LLM happy... 🤨
May 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Are you sure? Maybe natbib is the secret sauce that makes the LLM happy... 🤨
In case it’s of use to other academics, I put together an overleaf project which shows how to use different styles for in-text citations and bibliographies (eg, author-year in text vs numeric in bib). Works in BibLaTeX and hackily in natbib.
Link: www.overleaf.com/read/tkxbfty...
Link: www.overleaf.com/read/tkxbfty...
November 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM
In case it’s of use to other academics, I put together an overleaf project which shows how to use different styles for in-text citations and bibliographies (eg, author-year in text vs numeric in bib). Works in BibLaTeX and hackily in natbib.
Link: www.overleaf.com/read/tkxbfty...
Link: www.overleaf.com/read/tkxbfty...
bibにdoiが入ってるとエラーになる。hyperrefが必要らしい。むずい。
% References
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\bibliographystyle{jecon}
% References
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\bibliographystyle{jecon}
April 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM
bibにdoiが入ってるとエラーになる。hyperrefが必要らしい。むずい。
% References
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\bibliographystyle{jecon}
% References
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\bibliographystyle{jecon}
Whatever the journal asks for. If you use Bibtex, you can leave this decision open. I tend to leverage Natbib in addition, and if that's not possible, add a macro for \citet.
For pure links, even footnotes might do the trick.
For pure links, even footnotes might do the trick.
August 24, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Whatever the journal asks for. If you use Bibtex, you can leave this decision open. I tend to leverage Natbib in addition, and if that's not possible, add a macro for \citet.
For pure links, even footnotes might do the trick.
For pure links, even footnotes might do the trick.
In my experience the ACM defaults to numerical but lets you override it. Springer is the one that actually forces you to use it, and even forced you not to use natbib to match their style. The worst.
December 3, 2024 at 1:14 AM
In my experience the ACM defaults to numerical but lets you override it. Springer is the one that actually forces you to use it, and even forced you not to use natbib to match their style. The worst.
I think that's in part the result of people using \citet and not bothering to figure out how to tweak natbib settings so that the threshold for "et al." would be 4 instead of 3?
November 30, 2024 at 12:04 PM
I think that's in part the result of people using \citet and not bothering to figure out how to tweak natbib settings so that the threshold for "et al." would be 4 instead of 3?
I don't even know if there's any way to do this automatically with the usual natbib + bibtex things, other than tweaking the bibliography style or remembering to use \citet* instead of \citet for papers with exactly 3 coauthors? Biblatex would support this, but it has its own issues…
November 30, 2024 at 12:10 PM
I don't even know if there's any way to do this automatically with the usual natbib + bibtex things, other than tweaking the bibliography style or remembering to use \citet* instead of \citet for papers with exactly 3 coauthors? Biblatex would support this, but it has its own issues…
The .tex itself Just Works, in my experience. The only issue I've run into is if you use different citation engines -- using natbib or other engines will require you to generate the .bbl file yourself. The default puts the cites in as text at the end of the .tex though, which works fine for me
March 26, 2024 at 6:25 PM
The .tex itself Just Works, in my experience. The only issue I've run into is if you use different citation engines -- using natbib or other engines will require you to generate the .bbl file yourself. The default puts the cites in as text at the end of the .tex though, which works fine for me
Hello, does anyone know how to make the number of author in the bibliography none in Natbib?
September 15, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Hello, does anyone know how to make the number of author in the bibliography none in Natbib?
The journal I want to submit this manuscript to allows for LaTeX submissions (+1), but thinks that natbib + bibtex is good enough. So now curly braces around all {G}erman titles, so that they don't lose their capitalization.
December 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
The journal I want to submit this manuscript to allows for LaTeX submissions (+1), but thinks that natbib + bibtex is good enough. So now curly braces around all {G}erman titles, so that they don't lose their capitalization.
From #CTAN:
Jason Overfelt submitted the citeright package.
Version: 1.0.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Specify accurate natbib citations for diverse naming conventions
ctan.org/pkg/citeright
#TeXLaTeX
Jason Overfelt submitted the citeright package.
Version: 1.0.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Specify accurate natbib citations for diverse naming conventions
ctan.org/pkg/citeright
#TeXLaTeX
CTAN: Package citeright
ctan.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
From #CTAN:
Jason Overfelt submitted the citeright package.
Version: 1.0.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Specify accurate natbib citations for diverse naming conventions
ctan.org/pkg/citeright
#TeXLaTeX
Jason Overfelt submitted the citeright package.
Version: 1.0.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Specify accurate natbib citations for diverse naming conventions
ctan.org/pkg/citeright
#TeXLaTeX
Eu procurando documento do natbib pra tirar dúvida de um input que achei estranho E ALGUÉM REALMENTE EXPLICOU DIRETO NO DOC OFICIAL, obg galeres do LaTeX vcs são show!
October 24, 2023 at 12:43 AM
Eu procurando documento do natbib pra tirar dúvida de um input que achei estranho E ALGUÉM REALMENTE EXPLICOU DIRETO NO DOC OFICIAL, obg galeres do LaTeX vcs são show!
Prompt: "I want you to write a literature review for an academic article on the use of "marginal structural models" in the social sciences. It should be in a tex file that can compile with a .bib file with the references. Use bibtex/natbib for the citations in the latex file...
February 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Prompt: "I want you to write a literature review for an academic article on the use of "marginal structural models" in the social sciences. It should be in a tex file that can compile with a .bib file with the references. Use bibtex/natbib for the citations in the latex file...