[texhax] Appending text to a citation

[Alan Litchfield]

Thanks Anne,

That's what I thought but for some reason it hasn't been working.  
After your email (which confirmed I wasn't going totally mad) I had  
another comb through the apacite manual and found what I had been  
looking for (which may negate your confirmation).

The correct syntax I need looks like this:
\cite<prefix>[suffix]{label}

In this case \cite<described in>{Alter2000} gives me what I want.

Alan

On 19/09/2007, at 7:45 PM, anne Vanhoest wrote:


>
> If you are using natbib try putting two pairs of brackets, ie
> \citep[see][]{jon90}  gives  (see Jones et al., 1990)
> \citep[see][chap.~2]{jon90}  gives  (see Jones et al., 1990, chap. 2)
>
> This is from the natbib.pdf manual, page 6.
>
> all the best
>
> anne
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>
> +Howdy,
> +
> +I know I have done this before, but be danged if I can remember how I
> +did it.
> +
> +I want a citation to read "(described in Alter, 2000)"
> +
> +but if I use \cite[described in]{Alter2000} I get "(Alter, 2000,
> +described in)".
> +
> +So, what is the command that'll give the former? In other words, will
> +put the text at the beginning of the citation, not the end?
> +
> +Oh, I am using apacite for the bib style.
> +
> +Cheers
> +Alan