Title: How to have author-date citations using Springer LNCS format?
Tags: bibliographies;natbib;lncs
Question: I am using a LaTeX document similar to this, using splncsnat.bst to try to use
natbib. I also tried other options but I only obtained a bibliographic number system:
\documentclass{llncs}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\begin{document}
Bla bla bla \cite[Pamp2015].
\bibliographystyle{splncsnat}
\bibliography{sbphd}   % name of my BibTeX data base
\end{document}
I tried this solution and it results. It is the best way?
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

Here is the accepted answer: It seems to work OK. (Although I had to guess where you got splncsnat.bst from.)
\documentclass[oribibl]{llncs}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{test2018,
author = {Author, A.},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal},
volume = {1},
pages = {1-10},
year = {2018}
@article{test2017a,
author = {Author, A.},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal},
volume = {1},
pages = {1-10},
year = {2017}
@article{test2017b,
author = {Author, A.},
title = {Title2},
journal = {Journal},
volume = {1},
pages = {1-10},
year = {2017}
@article{test2016,
author = {Author, A. and Author, B.},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal},
volume = {1},
pages = {1-10},
year = {2016}
@article{test2015,
author = {Author, A. and Author, B. and Author, C.},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal},
volume = {1},
pages = {1-10},
year = {2015}
\end{filecontents}
\setcitestyle{round,aysep={}}
\begin{document}
\citep{test2018}
\citet[2]{test2017a}
\citep{test2018,test2017a}
\citep{test2017a,test2017b}
\citet{test2016}
\citep{test2015}
\citep[5]{test2015,test2018}
\bibliographystyle{splncsnat.bst}
\bibliography{\jobname.bib}
\end{document}
Comment for this answer: @namasikanam. No idea. I probably just Googled. Maybe http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2011/02/natbib-compatible-bibtex-style-bst-file.html?m=1
Comment for this answer: So, where could I get `splncsnat.bst`?


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