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From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: BIBTEX- Bibliography style file wanted
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Date: 8 Apr 91 21:39:17 GMT
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Reply-To: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
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In article <91098.142149U27095@uicvm.uic.edu> U27095@UICVM.UIC.EDU ("Cynthia E. Rodriguez") writes:

>   We have a user here who needs an unusual (and ugly) bibtex style file.
>The style is similar to apalike except that instead of "(Jones, 1986)"
>it should be "Jones (1986)". Does anyone know of such a style file?

Are you sure about this?  In my field we do something sort of like
this, but we would say

    . . . according to Jones (1986), bla de bla de bla.  As Smith
    (1987, 1992) has noted, deedle dee dee.  However, in Jones 1986 it
    was proposed that dum de dum dum.  Furthermore, it has even been
    claimed that oo poppa doo wah (Brown 1991, 1992a).

If it were just "Jones (1986)" in cites the last line would read

    claimed that oo poppa doo wah Brown (1991, 1992a).

which is beyond ugliness.  Are you sure your user understands the
style guidelines correctly?

(Are we talking about references or citations here?)

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    Rod Johnson  *  rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu  *  (313) 650 2315 

              "Poetry ends like a rope"   --Jack Spicer