[texhax] NatBib-based styles and unusual year or author entries

[Dan Hatton]

Dear All,

I sometimes use NatBib-based bibliography styles to get author/year
citations.  But I also sometimes read books that have more than one
edition, and like to capture the first-edition year as well as the
year of the edition I'm actually citing, e.g.:

@BOOK{Jeffreys:1961:TP,
author="Harold Jeffreys",
editor="N. F. Mott and E. C. Bullard and D. H. Wilkinson",
title="Theory of Probability",
publisher="Clarendon Press",
year="1961 (1939)",
address="Oxford",
edition="Third",
series="The International Series of Monographs on Physics"
}

I also sometimes read works by authors who've changed their surname
between two reprints of a work, and like to keep track of that as
well, e.g.

@INCOLLECTION{Lewis:1995:D,
editor="John G. Noyes and Jim Asher and Owen C. Jones and Geoffrey
F. Phillips",
booktitle="{K}aye {\&} {L}aby: Tables of Physical and Chemical
Constants",
publisher="Longman",
year="1995 (1911)",
address="Harlow",
edition="Sixteenth",
author="Lewis[ Peggs], S[ylvia] L.",
title="Densities",
chapter="2.2.1",
pages="41--43",
note="{URL}:
$\langle{}$\url{http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_2/2_2_1.html}$\rangle{}$"
}

The trouble is, bibliography entries with either the multiple year
field or the multi-surname author field confuse NatBib and its
descendants, so that they revert to numeric citations.  So, any ideas
how I can get author/year citations _and_ keep this sort of
non-standard author and year information in the reference list,
please?

-- 

Thanks very much

Dan Hatton

<http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>