For all the flak we give #ACM over many many things, the `acmart.cls` with its support for #biblatex/#natbib is truly a gift to researchers writing.
Parenthetical citations are not nouns! Textual citations, however, are!
The same can be said for #OASIcs enabling support for #natbib at least.
#LNCS on the other hand...I do not want to use a third party bst file... nor an unsupported biblatex model...
Something for scientists who also read other languages than English:
Correctly sort Bibliographic Entries with Diacritics in #TexLaTeX (#natbib, #BibTeX)
#XeTeX
LaTeX started as an ASCII thing for English speaking nerds. Only later did people start to use it all over the word, in many languages from Cezch to Hindi. We now have XeTeX and LuaLaTeX. But like the serpent Sesha in the Hindu mythology, some of that early ASCII universe remains, notably in the BibTex [...]
Jan de Muijnck-Hughes
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