[texhax] harvard package and bibtex

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I'm using Miktex in Windedt.  I'm having trouble getting my desired
> citation
> style (eg Fama and French, 1999) working.

First of all, just for general information, such a problem is very unlikely
to have anything to do with either MiKTeX of WinEdt.  What is actually moe
use is to have a listing of your preamble, i.e., the class used and all
packages loaded.

> When I don't use the harvard package in my document, bibtex works fine

Note that BibTeX works according to the bst called, which can be independent
of the packages used.

> but I
> get numbers from using \cite (eg [4] instead of Fama and French, 1999)
> and it
> doesn't recognize \citeasnoun.  But when I add on the harvard package, it
> recognizes \citeasnoun and seems to locate my bib file, but I wind up
> with a bunch of question marks (eg [?] or ? instead of Fama and French,
> 1999).  My .bib file is in the same directory as my .tex file.   What am I
> missing?  Any ideas - I don't want to go back over and do the cites by
> hand...

I'm not familiar with the harvard packages (as an aside, I would recommend
natbib as more flexible) but I do have a couple of useful tips:

1) if you chop and change packages always delete the .aux file(s) as they
may contain commands that have become undefined or incompatibe citation
formats;

2) you usually need to run LaTeX TWICE after BibTeX to get rid of the ?.

Moreover, although I'm not sure about harvard, in natbib at least the
author-year citation format is disabled automatically if citations without,
e.g., an author are found.

Cheers,   Phil Ratcliffe