What is NATBIB?
                                 
It is a LaTeX (2e, with some support for 2.09) package to act as generalized
interface for standard and non-standard bibliographic style files (BibTeX).

It is intended primarily to produce author-year style citations from a variety
of non-standard .bst outputs; it therefore replaces the special and individual
packages that go along with such .bst files:
   apalike.sty    for    apalike.bst et al.
   newapa.sty            newapa.bst, 
   chicago.sty           chicago.bst, named.bst et al.
   harvard.sty           agsm.bst, dcu.bst, kluwer.bst et al.
   astron.sty            astron.bst, apa.bst, humanbio.bst, et al.
   authordate<n>.sty     authordate<n>.bst, aaai-named.bst
   
The standard .bst files (plain et al) and other numerical citation .bst files
are also understood.

There is also a native natbib format for .bst files, which is of course also
understood. This is illustrated in the supplied natbib.bst file.

For details, see the documentation by LaTeXing natbib.dtx.

Patrick W. Daly
Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Aeronomie
D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
E-mail: daly@linax1.dnet.gwdg.de