Thank you for pointing out the post-upgrade disappearance of the postings following my original posting for Limit on number of References?.
That said, after some research, I have learned that the issue I raised in my original posting appears when I have attempted to have more than 26 references that have an identical author and year combination when using the natbib package for citations and references. Natbib uses the author–year sorting scheme as a default.
As background, I am using the apacite.bst bibliography-style file with Natbib. When using the apacite.bst bibliography-style file, Natbib attempts to handle identical author and year combinations by automatically adding a single sequential letter a … z from the alphabet to the end of each of the identical author and year combinations, but obviously runs out of letters after the letter ‘z’, hence the 26 limit. I have yet to find a legitimate way around this limitation.
FYI, following up on your suggestion to convert my project to biblatex et al. as a way to avoid the issue, I spent a few days trying to convert my project from natbib to biblatex, but gave up once I realized that my project was too far committed to the natbib package with all of it’s commensurate packages to successfully make the necessary change.
Right now I am researching what options I may have with natbib to avoid the 26 a … z letter limit on identical author-year combinations that natbib has. I’ve temporarily circumvented the issue by making a slight adjustment to one or more of the otherwise identical author-year entries, such as adding a period after the author’s name, that allows the project to compile, but is not strictly legitimate.
I’d welcome any thoughts you or others may have on how I can adapt natbib to accommodate more than 26 identical author-year items in a bibliography.
Thank you for your help in sorting this issue out.
Thanks,
scrive
