Get round brackets with apalike

When forming my bibliography, I use \bibliographystyle However that leads to in text references to use square brackets. I was wondering if it is possible for me to change the brackets to round brackets?

asked Jun 3, 2013 at 12:55 Dennis Yang Dennis Yang 81 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass <. >and ending with \end .

Commented Jun 3, 2013 at 13:17

This might be useful tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39248/…, if you’re using the article document class or similar.

Commented Jun 3, 2013 at 13:50 Are you loading the package apalike too? Commented Jun 3, 2013 at 14:47

1 Answer 1

\usepackage[round]

to your preamble. For regular in text citations, use

\citet> % or \cite>

and for citations enclosed in parentheses use

\citep>

See the natbib documentation for more details.

(You can also load the apalike package as Marco suggests in the comments, but the natbib solution is to be preferred since with apalike you only get the whole citation surrounded by parentheses, which is usually not the preferred method.)