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+ What is NATBIB?
+
+It is a LaTeX (2e, with some support for 2.09) package to act as generalized
+interface for standard and non-standard bibliographic style files (BibTeX).
+
+It is intended primarily to produce author-year style citations from a variety
+of non-standard .bst outputs; it therefore replaces the special and individual
+packages that go along with such .bst files:
+ apalike.sty for apalike.bst et al.
+ newapa.sty newapa.bst,
+ chicago.sty chicago.bst, named.bst et al.
+ harvard.sty agsm.bst, dcu.bst, kluwer.bst et al.
+ astron.sty astron.bst, apa.bst, humanbio.bst, et al.
+ authordate<n>.sty authordate<n>.bst, aaai-named.bst
+
+The above .bst files may also be used with natbib to produce author-year or
+numerical citations, so that switching from author-year to numerical is only
+a matter of selecting an option.
+
+The standard .bst files (plain et al) and other numerical citation .bst files
+are also understood, but they can produce only numerical citations.
+Replacement .bst files
+ plainnat.bst
+ abbrvnat.bst
+ unsrtnat.bst
+are provided to produce the same formatting of the reference list as the
+standard equivalent, but allowing both author-year and numerical citations.
+
+See my parallel custom-bib system for generating customized bst files.
+
+For installation instructions and more details, see README.vxx.
+
+Patrick W. Daly
+Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Sonnensystemforschung
+D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
+E-mail: daly@mps.mpg.de