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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/README.1st b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/README.1st new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1d44a64310e --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/README.1st @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + 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 Aeronomie +D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany +E-mail: daly@linmpi.mpg.de |