Comments (8)
I think plain
is a bit safer default choice as it produces shorter citation references (see this PDF) and (from what I've seen) it is a more commonly use citation style in Computer Lab's PhD theses.
Users can still change that, but I'd vote to leave plain
as default.
I'll close this for now. We can reopen if more people vote on this one.
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For what it's worth, I used unsrtnat
, which sorted the references in the correct order for Chemistry theses, but had to edit the .bib files to remove all fields which shouldn't appear in the bibliography, and also to standardise names (e.g. only initials and surname). In the process, I discovered that BibTeX files downloaded from publishers are often full of errors, so going over them manually should be necessary anyway.
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@chatcannon You can try JabRef because it has an option to create the bibtex from the DOI, or similar tool online, I had the same problem as you: http://www.doi2bib.org/#/doi
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@urbas I've been searching a bit about the differences between plain
and plainnat
and as far as I could understand plainnat
is basically plain
plus some useful stuff.
I'm definitely using plainnat
now because while I'm writing it is very useful to use stuff like \citeauthor{}
, but can you please explain what you meant by "it produces shorter ciration references"? Because I tried with both plainnat
and plain
and couldn't find any difference in my bibliography section.
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@tjiagoM: if you look at the first paragraph on page 13 of this PDF you'll see the long author list of the citation (the PDF was generated from this commit). The citation in this example uses \cite{example}
and \bibliographystyle{plainnat}
.
Shorter citation styles (that look like [1]
) cause fewer line-overfullness problems, that's why I'd vote for plain
.
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Ah, now I get it. But that's why I use \usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
when i want the plainnat
option.
This way I have the same things as plain
with the perks that I mentioned in the beginning, without any side effects, I think.
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I see now. Yes that definitely sounds good.
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PR #47 addressed this issue.
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