如果第一作者在同一年发表了多篇合著论文，则带有 apacite 的 BibTex 不会按我期望的方式生成引文标注

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让我们来检验一下您提出的一些主张。

参考书目的问题在于它们没有按字母顺序排列。

不确定你这个说法的依据是什么。如果你使用apacite引文管理包和apacite参考书目样式，这肯定不是真的。请注意，排序是按字母顺序进行的全部作者，而不仅仅是第一作者或“主要”作者，只有那时按年份。

因此，Latex 似乎试图通过列出更多作者来区分论文，直到它具有独特的签名。

了解 LaTeX 非常重要不执行任何排序。相反，您选择的参考书目样式会告知 BibTeX 应如何进行排序。正如您所注意到的，apacite如果两个出版物的年份相同但各个条目的作者列表不相同，则参考书目样式不会自动截断作者姓名列表。

假设 2010 年有 3 篇论文。我希望引用中包含一封信。（Burke 等人 2010a）；（Burke 等人 2010b）等等。

采用apacite书目格式，您的期望就没有根据了。

看起来您apacite一开始就不应该使用书目样式。您可能想切换到apalike书目样式，并加载natbib包而不是apacite引文管理包。以下屏幕截图显示了您进行这些更改后会得到的结果。

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@article{BurkeEtAl1999,
    author = {Burke, E. and De Causmaecker, P. and Berghe, G. V.},
    title = {A hybrid tabu search algorithm for the nurse rostering problem},
    year = 1999,
    journal = {Simulated evolution and learning},
    volume = {1585},
    pages = {187--194}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2003,
    author = {Burke, E. and Kendall, G. and Soubeiga, E. A.},
    title = {Tabu-search hyper-heuristic for timetabling and rostering},
    year = 2003,
    journal = {Journal of Heuristics},
    volume = {9},
    number = {6},
    pages = {451--470}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2007a,
    author = {Burke, E. and Curtois, T. and Post, G. and Qu, R. and Veltman, B.},
    title = {A hybrid heuristic ordering and variable neighbourhood search for the nurse rostering problem},
    year = 2007,
    journal = {European Journal of Operational Research},
    volume = {188},
    number = {2},
    pages = {330--341}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2007b,
    author = {Burke, E. and Curtois, T. and Qu, R. and Berghe, G. V.},
    title = {A scatter search for the nurse rostering problem},
    year = 2007,
    journal = {School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Tech. Rep.},
    number = {NOTTCS-TR-2007-7}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2009,
    author = {Burke, E. and Hyde, M. and Kendall, G. and Ochoa, G. and Özcan, E. and Qu, R.},
    title = {A survey of hyper-heuristics},
    year = 2009,
    journal = {School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Tech. Rep.},
    number = {NOTTCS-TR-SUB-0906241418-2747}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2010a,
    author = {Burke, E. and Curtois, T. and Hyde, M. and Kendall, G. and Ochoa, G. and Petrovic, S. and Gendreau, M.},
    title = {Iterated local search vs. hyper--heuristics: Towards general--purpose search algorithms},
    year = 2010,
    journal = {Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2010 IEEE Congress on},
    pages = {1--8}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2010b,
    author = {Burke, E. and Curtois, T. and Qu, R. and Berghe, G. V.},
    title = {A scatter search methodology for the nurse rostering problem},
    year = 2010,
    journal = {Journal of the Operational Research Society},
    volume = {61},
    number = {11},
    pages = {1667--1679}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2010c,
    author = {Burke, E. and Hyde, M. and Kendall, G. and Ochoa, G. and Özcan, E. and Woodward, J.},
    title = {A Classification of Hyper-heuristic Approaches},
    year = 2010,
    journal = {Handbook of Metaheuristics, International Series in Operations Research and Management Science},
    volume = {146},
    pages = {449--468}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2011a,
    author = {Burke, E. and Gendreau, M. and Ochoa, G. and Walker, J.},
    title = {Adaptive iterated local search for cross-domain optimisation},
    year = 2011,
    journal = {In Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation},
    pages = {1987--1994}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2011b,
    author = {Burke, E. and Curtois, T. and van Draat, L. and van Ommeren, J. and Post, G.},
    title = {Progress control in iterated local search for nurse rostering},
    year = 2011,
    journal = {Journal of the Operational Research Society},
    volume = {62},
    number = {2},
    pages = {1987--1994}
}
@article{BurkeEtAl2013,
    author = {Burke, E. and Hyde, M. and Kendall, G. and Ochoa, G. and Özcan, E. and Qu, R.},
    title = {Hyper-heuristics: A survey of the state of the art},
    year = 2013,
    journal = {Journal of the Operational Research Society advance online publication},
    volume = {64},
    number = {12},
    pages = {1695-–1724}
}
\end{filecontents}

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\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{aysep={}}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\usepackage[colorlinks,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
\begingroup
\obeylines
This uses \verb+\citep+. I expect it to come out as (Burke et al. 2010a). 
Sure enough, I get: \citep{BurkeEtAl2010a}.

\smallskip
This uses \verb+\citep+. I expect it to come out as (Burke et al. 2010b). 
Sure enough, I get: \citep{BurkeEtAl2010b}.

\smallskip
This uses \verb+\citep+. I expect it to come out as (Burke et al. 2010c). 
Sure enough, I get: \citep{BurkeEtAl2010c}.

\medskip
This also comes out correctly if there is a single citation for a given year:
\citep{BurkeEtAl1999}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2003}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2007a}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2007b}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2009}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2011a}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2011b}
\citep{BurkeEtAl2013}
\endgroup
\bibliography{WorkforceScheduling}
\end{document}

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