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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 16-1-2 on page II-472 in "Bibliographical reference schemes".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{279.0pt}
% small headings for the example
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
{-1.25ex \@plus-1ex \@minus-.2ex}%
{.5ex}%
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle
{abbrvnat}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
Entries with multiple
authors might
be problematical,
e.g., \cite{LGC97} and
\cite{test97} or even
\cite{LGC97,test97}.
But then they might not.
\bibliography{tlc,tlc-ex}
\end{document}