Citations (Author-year, and \newblock)

[bowersd]

In order to get a bibliography to appear at all (even using uclathes.bst), I had to include the following in the preamble:

\usepackage{natbib}
\def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em}

It seems this should be included by default.
Shockingly, the class seems to conflict with author-year citations. Using the chicago bibliography style prompts the error:

Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.

But I have used chicago for years to make author-year citations.

[bowersd]

How odd, it plays nicely with chicago now. I must have had some old crud in the auxiliary files.

[louis925]

The \newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em} was defined in the thebibliography environment in uclathes.cls. If you call natbib package, the bibliography environment will be overwritten by the natbib one, which doesn't define \newblock. The correct way is to move the \newblock definition outside thebibliography environment.