CTAN Update: natbib 8.0
Date: February 5, 2007 3:18:29 PM CET
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Patrick Daly submitted a new version of the
natbib
package.
The natbib package provides a style with author-year and numbered
references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography
use. Provides versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible
with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles
produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with
natbib.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/natbib
Summary description: Update to natbib package, based on user suggestions, wishes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
List of changes (from the README.v80 file) v8.0 Add \setcitestyle to simplify changing citation punctuation; is to replace \bibpunct, which is retained for compatibility. Citation style commands (\setcitestyle, \citestyle, \bibpunct) are no longer limited to the preamble; in particular they may be issued in different chapters with the chapterbib package; even the author--year or numerical mode can be switched and the bibliography is adjusted accordingly. (This has long been requested by several users.) The docstrip option 'nopreonly' is therefore removed, since it is now always active. Support for LaTeX 2.09 is removed; I no longer can test it and it only complicates the source file. Package option 'colon' always meant putting a semi-colon between multiple citations. This seems odd to me, but I probably thought 'semicolon' was too long. I now have 'semicolon' to be explicit, but 'colon' is still retained (as semi-colon). v7.5 (Never released, it is the preliminary 8.0) Superscript citations: if braces specified, they are also superscripted in both in-text and parenthetical citations. Any optional notes are printed before and after as regular text. Add \citenum{key} to print the number, even in author-year mode. And without superscripting and without parentheses. This is so superscripted citations can be referred to in-text as regular numbers. In-text numerical citations with notes: the notes are now outside the parentheses as this appears more logical. For parenthetical citations, notes are still inside. The indexing of citations now has the default format Author [num] in numerical mode. Previously it was Author [date] in both.
This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=natbib (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
List of changes (from the README.v80 file) v8.0 Add \setcitestyle to simplify changing citation punctuation; is to replace \bibpunct, which is retained for compatibility. Citation style commands (\setcitestyle, \citestyle, \bibpunct) are no longer limited to the preamble; in particular they may be issued in different chapters with the chapterbib package; even the author--year or numerical mode can be switched and the bibliography is adjusted accordingly. (This has long been requested by several users.) The docstrip option 'nopreonly' is therefore removed, since it is now always active. Support for LaTeX 2.09 is removed; I no longer can test it and it only complicates the source file. Package option 'colon' always meant putting a semi-colon between multiple citations. This seems odd to me, but I probably thought 'semicolon' was too long. I now have 'semicolon' to be explicit, but 'colon' is still retained (as semi-colon). v7.5 (Never released, it is the preliminary 8.0) Superscript citations: if braces specified, they are also superscripted in both in-text and parenthetical citations. Any optional notes are printed before and after as regular text. Add \citenum{key} to print the number, even in author-year mode. And without superscripting and without parentheses. This is so superscripted citations can be referred to in-text as regular numbers. In-text numerical citations with notes: the notes are now outside the parentheses as this appears more logical. For parenthetical citations, notes are still inside. The indexing of citations now has the default format Author [num] in numerical mode. Previously it was Author [date] in both.
This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=natbib (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
natbib – Flexible bibliography support
The bundle provides a package that implements both author-year and numbered references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Also Provided are versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib—plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with natbib.
| Package | natbib |
| Version | 8.31b |
| Copyright | 1993–2009 Patrick W Daly |
| Maintainer | Patrick W. Daly Arthur Ogawa |