In the bibtex file, do you have the "year" filed as 2001a, 2001b? That's not
necessary, entries by the same author and w/ the same year will be
automatically appended a, b, etc. by bibtex!


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Benjamin Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> this is my first post here and I hope it's ok to ask. I already did an
> intensive search on the internet regarding my question but I somehow can't
> find any pages that are related.
>
> I have a problem with the implementation of a BibTex library in Lyx/Latex.
> The problem occurs when I name publications from the same author and the
> same year with a,b,c etc.
>
> So I want it to occur like this in the Document: (Tanaka 2001b) but after
> having the file compiled to a pdf the outcome is somewhat like this (Tanaka
> 001b).  For some reason the citation only refers to the last four letters in
> the field "year" so the first number is not written in the pdf.
>
> I use natbib with apa-style and set "\bibpunct[: ]{(}{)}{}{}{ }{}" to make
> the citation more customlike
>
> Does anyone experienced a similar problem? If yes, can you could give me
> some advice?
>
> Thanks, ben
>

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