changing the citation style in LateX

Question

I am very new to LaTex so my question may be really naive. I am writing my PhD thesis using this template. The problem is that I need to change the citation style so that it based on author year not numbers as in the template. I tried many times but it always fails with many error messages due to the macros of the template.

It will be a great help to guide me how to change the style. Unfortunately I have only limited time to finalize the thesis.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I reviewed the documentation of biblatex and found that the answer is very easy. One should make sure that the option style in the package biblatex is set to authoryear as style = authoryear,.

To enable the natbib Compatibility (to use \citep and \citet etc), you have to add natbib=true,.