This seems to add space below the text, and none above it.

\bibpunct[: ]{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{:}

Citation comes as follows:
\citep[485]{authorx97} -> (Authorx 1997: 485)

That’s what I was looking for.

Stefan

I created a custom *.bst-file with makebst, which worked perfectly for my Bibliography.
When I am citing (with natbib), I get the following label within the text: ‘AuthorX et al. (2005, 384)’ (doing \cite[384]{authorx}. But how can I replace the comma with a colon, like ‘AuthorX et al. (2005: 384)’?
I have tried a lot, like finding the entry in the *.bst-file, re-running the tiring makebst-procedure or using the \bibpunct-function (with \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{:}) but without any success. It can’t be too difficult though!? It would be great to get a hint on that.

Thanks in advance

Stefan

and sorry for answering a bit;) late.

You can read about Roman punctuation in “Instructions for Preparation of Papers and Monographs. AMS-LaTeX”, in section entitled “Roman type”.

Regards

I am sorry I don’t know German. In English (at least American English), “e.g.” and “i.e.” are just like this—no extra space between the first dot and the next character.

However, I am advised from somewhere else that I’d better avoid using “e.g.” and “i.e.” in academic writing, or make them into a latex macro in case I really need to. In the latter case I can easily change the layout of “e.g.” or “i.e.” in the macro, such as what you said, putting a small space between the first dot and the next character.

I can not find an AMS tutorial talking about the punctuation issue. It would be good if you can provide a reference.

The backslash in bibliography: I don’t know why, but I just don’t see any difference whether a backslash is there or not. I suspect that latex does something different for the thebibliography environment. My theory is that latex would never think a dot as the end of a sentence. Hence the width between a dot and the next character is just a normal white space width. That may also be the reason why bibtex explicitly puts the \newblock command when it typesets the bibliographies. The \newblock command adds some width there.

The NASA case is good. Thanks.

Thank you for pointing this out. At a matter of fact I don’t have too much knowledge on UK English. So basically what I am speaking and writing conforms to the American convention…