Cfrgtkky

How do I separate author names with "/" (slash) instead of commas using natbib (in LaTeX)?
My question relates to citation (in footnotes) as well as the bibliography. Do I have to configure this in setcitestyle or bibpunct?

An example for comprehension:
as is now:

Lastname1, Lastname2, and Lastname3 (Year), p. X-Y

as it should be:

Lastname1 / Lastname2 / Lastname3 (Year), p. X-Y

% Begin preamble

documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage[english, german]{babel}

usepackage[textwidth = 160mm, top = 25mm, bottom = 20mm]{geometry}

usepackage[round]{natbib}

bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}





title{Some Thesis}

author{Onyx}

date{March 2019}

% End preamble 

begin{document}

%tableofcontents

begin{titlepage}

maketitle

end{titlepage}

% Plots the preamble

%citep or citet* for citation





input{chapters/abstract}



bibliographystyle{plainnat}

bibliography{sources}



end{document}

If you want to use the / ("slash") symbol as the name divider that's in use in the formatted bibliography, I suggest you proceed as follows:

• Locate the file plainnat.bst in your TeX distribution. Make a copy of this file and call the copy, say, plainnat-slash.bst.




• Open the file plainnat-slash.bst in a text editor. The editor you employ to edit your tex files will do fine.




• In the file plainnat-slash.bst, locate the function format.names. (In my copy of this file, the function starts on line 216.)



• 
  

  In the function format.names, change the line

  
  
  

             { ", " * t * }
  
  

  
  
  

  to

  
  
  

             { "slash " * t * }
  
  

  
  
  

  Next, change the line

  
  
  

                { "," * }
  
  

  
  
  

  to

  
  
  

                { "slash " * }
  
  

  
  
  

  You may be wondering why I don't suggest changing the line to

  
  
  

               { "/" * }
  
  

  
  
  

  The reason is that line breaks are allowed after slash but not after /.

  
  
  

  Finally, change the lines

  
  
  

                 { " et~al." * }
  
                 { " and " * t * }
  
  

  
  
  

  to

  
  
  

                 { "et~al." * }
  
                 { "" * t * }
  
  

  
  



• Save the file plainnat-slash.bst either in the foldere where your main tex files are located or in a directory that's searched by your TeX distribution. If you choose the latter option, be sure to update the filename database of your TeX distribution suitably.



• 
  

  In your main tex file, change the instruction

  
  
  

  bibliographystyle{plainnat}
  
  

  
  
  

  to

  
  
  

  bibliographystyle{plainnat-slash}
  
  

  
  
  

  While you're at it, you should also delete the line

  
  
  

  bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
  
  

  
  



• Be sure to rerun LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more after the changing the argument of bibliographystyle.

Happy BibTeXing!

RequirePackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents}{sources.bib}

@misc{lll,  

    author = "First1 M1. Last1 and First2 M2. Last2 and First3 M3. Last3",

    title  = "Thoughts",

    year   = 2019,

}

end{filecontents}



documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage[english, german]{babel}

usepackage[textwidth = 160mm, top = 25mm, bottom = 20mm]{geometry}

usepackage[round]{natbib}

%bibliographystyle{abbrvnat} % Never allow more than one bibliographystyle directive

bibliographystyle{plainnat-slash}



begin{document}

citet{lll}

bibliography{sourcesx}

end{document}

I would recommend using biblatex with Biber like this:

usepackage[

backend=biber,

style=authoryear,

sorting=ynt,

dashed=true, 

maxbibnames=99,

maxcitenames=3

]{biblatex}

addbibresource{test.bib}



DeclareDelimFormat{multinamedelim}{spaceslashspace}