I am using bibtex to render my references in the paper. I have a problem in rendering the authors' first names. The bibtex references I am directly copying from Google Scholar. As an example, see the following bibtex entry:  @article{harikrishnan2006non,   title={A non-subjective approach to the GP algorithm for analysing noisy time series},   author={Harikrishnan, KP and Misra, Ranjeev and Ambika, G and Kembhavi, AK},   journal={Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena},   volume={215},   number={2},   pages={137--145},   year={2006},   publisher={Elsevier} }   Here, the authors' first names' abbreviations are written as KP and AK. However, in my pdf file, they appear as K and A respectively. One way to resolve this is to put space between these strings: K P and A K. However, I have a very long list of references and I think there has to be a better way to force bibtex to render these first names properly. Any ideas?
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BibTeX can abbreviate first names, e.g. change Smith, John to J. Smith.  In some languages, certain (not all) first names must be abbreviated  (it's not optional as in the case of Ch. for Charles).  How can I force BibTeX to do this for particular first names?  EDIT:  I encounter this all the time, including for my own name which should be abbreviated Sz rather than S.  I used to work around the problem by hand editing the reference list in the final version of the paper, but I'd prefer using BibTeX for everything if possible.  Requested example:  .tex file:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Text \cite{kovacs, smith}.  \bibliographystyle{abbrv} \bibliography{references} \end{document}    .bib file:  @Book{smith,   author  = "Peter Smith",   title   = "Title 1",   year    = 1980,   publisher = "Addison-Wesley" }  @Book{kovacs,   author  = "Csaba Kov\'{a}cs",   title   = "Title 2",   year    = 1986,   publisher = "Addison-Wesley" }   The output I get:     Text [1, 2].      References       [1] C. Kovács. Title 2. Addison-Wesley, 1986.      [2] P. Smith. Title 1. Addison-Wesley, 1980.   I need to tell bibtex that for Csaba Kovács I need to get Cs. Kovács in the output, and not C. Kovács, as this is incorrect.  The document is in English, so this is not a babel-issue.  This applies only to certain author names, and it's because in Hungarian C and Cs are considered to be distinct units of the alphabet.
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In my .bib file, I have this entry:  @conference{HCS96,   title={The Virtual Cinematographer: A Paradigm for Automatic Real-time Camera Control and Directing},   author={Li-wei He and Michael F. Cohen and Davih H. Salesin},   booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques},   pages={217--224},   isbn={0897917464},   year={1996},   organization={ACM} }   When I compile my thesis, I get this entry in the bibliography:  [wei He et al., 1996] wei He, L., Cohen, M. F., and Salesin, D. H. (1996). The virtual cinematographer: A paradigm for automatic real-time camera control and directing. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, pages 217–224. ACM.   Why is the name of the first author produced this way?! It should rather be "He et al., 1996". Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
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I've noticed, for citations, that some BibTeX files provided by google scholar are having regular errors (I believe these are errors).  For bib items, there is the "pages" field, in which we could input a range or a number of pages an article has. I've found at least two journals (in a short time span) whose articles have a wrong "pages" field. For instance  @article{baffou2009heat, title={Heat generation in plasmonic nanostructures: Influence of                  morphology},   author={Baffou, G and Quidant, R and Girard, C},   journal={Applied Physics Letters},   volume={94},   number={15},   pages={153109},   year={2009},   publisher={AIP} }   or   @inproceedings{ammari2015super,   title={Super-resolution in high-contrast media},   author={Ammari, Habib and Zhang, Hai},   booktitle={Proc. R. Soc. A},   volume={471},   number={2178},   pages={20140946},   year={2015},   organization={The Royal Society} }   Similarly, this last paper is not a proceeding, but an article from the journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society".   Probably there are some other mistakes around.  I know that these data are collected automatically, but, is there any way to report the errors to help google scholar to perfect their algorithms?
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The first given name of an author or editor in my bibliography should be written out, but all further first names should be abbreviated (initials with a period -- and space if there are multiple first names/initials, see below). I am using style=authoryear with BibLaTeX (v. 2.7) and Biber (v. 1.7).  My bibliography looks like this:     Doe, John Arthur Kyle (2013). The secret life of John Doe.   It should look like this:     Doe, John A. K. (2013). The secret life of John Doe.   Minimal example:  example.tex  \documentclass{scrartcl}  \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[babel,german=quotes]{csquotes} \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex} \bibliography{bibliography}  \begin{document}  \cite[123]{Doe} \printbibliography  \end{document}   bibliography.bib  @book{Doe,     title = {The secret life of John Doe},     author = {Doe, John Arthur Kyle},     year = {2013} }   (Worked with said versions of BibLaTeX and Biber, Texmaker (v. 4.0.3) and MiKTeX (v. 2.9.4813).)  I could not find a solution in biblatex.def and firstinits=true abbreviates all first names, including the first one.
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I'm having 2 problems with  references  in my thesis.  First when a last name starts with letter W, it always comes at the top. Before A. But if I change the authors lastname from Wolf to Solf it works. W isn't a special character in this context... or is it?  Second problem is when I have two names like 'Ivan and Me', in the references list I get 'Ivan, A and B Me' not 'Ivan, A and Me, B'. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.  My mwe is:  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,swedish]{report} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[swedish]{babel} \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}  \addbibresource{incl/tgene.bib}  \begin{document} Foo \parencite{ivan} bar \parencite{wolf}. \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc] \end{document}   And my .bib looks like:   @book{ivan,     author = {Ivan, A and Me, B},     title = {Title A},   }   @book{wolf,   author={Wolf, Ceasar},   title={Title B},   }
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My code:  \usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear, citestyle=authoryear, dashed=false,maxcitenames=2,giveninits]{biblatex} \renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space} \DeclareNameAlias{editor}{last-first}  \DeclareNameAlias{translator}{last-first}   and referencing:  @inproceedings{kazem2003design,   title={Design considerations for a background auditory display to aid pilot situation awareness},   author={Kazem, Mandana LN and Noyes, Janet M and Lieven, Nicholas J},   year={2003},   organization={Georgia Institute of Technology} }   The outcome:    It supposes to be:  Kazem, M.L., Noyes, J.M. and Lieven, N.J., 2003. Design considerations for a background auditory display to aid pilot situation awareness. Georgia Institute of Technology.   where the order of the first name and last name for the second author and the third author is not working well.   (Second author) J. M. Noyes --> Noyes, J.M. (Third authro) N.J. Lieven --> Lieven, N.J.
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When building my bibliography using the    \bibliographystyle{plainnat}    The output looks like     [88] G. R. Ruetsch and M. R. Maxey. Small-scale features of vorticity   and pas- sive scalar fields in homogeneous isotropic turbulence.   Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, 3(6):1587, 1991. ISSN 08998213.   doi: 10.1063/1.857938. URL   .   I'd like to omit of some of the fields, such as URL and ISSN.  Is this possible? If so, what do I need to do?  (Note: My BibTex was made using Mendley)
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With the following example, I tried to get a label only made of from the first author using maxcitenames. But unfortunately it seems not to work. Do I miss something?  \RequirePackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib} @book{smith1, author={John Smith and Mike Someone}, title={The book with a very very very very very long title}, year={2005}, location={New York}, publisher={Publisher}, } \end{filecontents*} \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[style=alphabetic,%             backend=biber,             maxbibnames=99,             maxcitenames=1,             backref=true             ]{biblatex}     \addbibresource{\jobname}     \renewcommand*{\labelalphaothers}{}     \renewcommand*{\intitlepunct}{}     \DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{in={}}     \DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{in={}}     \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}     \DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}  \begin{document} \cite{smith1} \printbibliography \end{document}
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I use the authoryear style in biblatex, and when I do for instance \cite{bauman2000}, I get:       Bauman 2000   But I would like to add a comma between the author and the year, in order to have      Bauman, 2000   Is there a simple command to get this change ?
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I have a problem with my citations, I want to cite an article with two authors, A Surname and B Lastname. I write it as following in my .bib file:  @article{crillersen, Author = {Surname, A and Lastname, B}, Title = {Random title}, Year = {2006}, Pages = {1,9 and 14}, Journal ={some journal}, url={http://www.someurl.com/}, }   I get the result:      Surname, A and B Lastname (2006). "Random title". I:some journal, 1, 9 and 14. url:.   The setup I am using is:  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[swedish]{babel}  \usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear]{biblatex}  \usepackage{floatrow} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{csquotes}  \begin{document}  \tableofcontents \listoffigures \listoftables  \printbibliography  \end{document}   Why do I get the surname first on the first person and the first name first on the second person? I have tried to look though previously asked questions but found nothing about this.  How can I print this correctly?
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I've seen papers (e.g., in Science) where the first two authors are listed in non-alphabetical order, and yet there are asterisks behind their names to say that they contributed equally.   It seems strange to me, because if the two authors are in alphabetical order, then it could be that the first author contributed more or the two contributed equally, and this can be made clear with asterisks in the paper if it's the latter case. When they're in non-alphabetical order, however, if someone only sees the author list without seeing the paper, he/she will likely assume that the first author contributed most.  So my question is: Are there particular reasons why people do that? (This  is related, but I don't think the answers there get to my question.)
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This question has been posed in many different variants, but not exactly as I ask here, so please do not consider this as a duplicate.  I use biblatex with the option useprefix. I would like to have the following automatic behavior:   Name prefixes are rendered before the last name in the bibliography, but always in lower case. The name prefixes are ignored for the sake of sorting of the bibliography. In running text, the name prefix is rendered with a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, and lower case elsewhere (possible using \Textcite vs. \textcite).   To achieve this, I can have three author fields for each concerned entry, with the following scheme:  author = { {v}an Dijk, A.} shortauthor = { van Dijk, A.} sortname = {Dijk, A. van}   Is there a simple way to automate this? Ideally, such a way could also allow for easy changing of the system.
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I am in need of a particular citation style, it is different from the ones offered by \cite, \citep or \citet.   This is how i would like the marks to look like    and this is how the bibliography should be.   I am not referring to the particular \bibliographystyle but to the fact that there are personalized names instead of numbers. I am not sure of it, but I believe that these marks were handcrafted.  At present I am using BibTex, but if needed i am ready to move to other tools.  This is an excerpt of my .bib   @article{maietti2009minimalist,   title={A minimalist two-level foundation for constructive mathematics},   author={Maietti, Maria Emilia},   journal={Annals of Pure and Applied Logic},   volume={160},   number={3},   pages={319--354},   year={2009},   publisher={Elsevier} } @article{coquand1998realizability,   title={A realizability interpretation of Martin-L{\"o}f’s type theory},   author={Coquand, Catarina},   journal={Twenty-Five Years of Constructive Type Theory},   year={1998} }
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I have taken a look through many other questions on this subject but cannot seem to fix my issue. Essentially while references display correctly I cannot get the author citation to appear in my text despite running pdflatex followed by bibtex followed by two more runs of pdflatex. Any help would be appreciated.  Sample tex file:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{natbib}  \begin{document}  Blahblahblah \citet*{Test12}.  \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{refs}  \end{document}   refs.bib:  @article{Test12, author = "John Smith", title = "Test Article", year = "2012", journal = "The Test Journal" }   Output:
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For my PhD thesis I have to typeset the author's family name in capital letters in the citation call-out but not in the bibliography itself. So, I mean:  cite: SCHULTZ, 1971 bibliography: Schultz, T. W. (1971): Book name.  In addition, for several authors I should use hyphen, like this:  JOSHI - PETERSON, 2013  Could anybody help me how one does this? Thanks. What I tried so far: (but I needed capital letters in cite) \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}   \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}   \usepackage{amsmath}   \usepackage{amsfonts}     \usepackage{amssymb}    \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}     \bibliographystyle{apalike}    \begin{document}    blablabalbal~\citealp{aas2004modelling}    \bibliography{bibfile}      \end{document}
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I cite elements from my bibfile using \citet{key}. The reference appears as "Name1, and Name2 (year)" in text where year is a link leading to the bibliography. Now, I want to cite two papers from the same authors from different years. Instead of     Model XYZ is analyzed by Name1, and Name2 (2019) and Name1, and Name2 (2020).   I'd prefer to have something like     Model XYZ is analyzed by Name1, and Name2 (2019, 2020).   Of course, now 2019 should be a link to the 2019 paper in the bibliography and 2020 a link to the 2020 paper in the bibliography. Any ideas of I could adjust the \citet command?    I use biblatex as follows.  \usepackage[style=ext-authoryear,              sorting=nyt,             backend=biber,              natbib=true,                          uniquename = false,              uniquelist = false,             firstinits=false,              hyperref=true,             dashed=false,             backref=false,              maxbibnames=99,              maxcitenames=3,             isbn=false,              doi=false]{biblatex}
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I'm using the  package to add citations and a bibliography to my LaTeX document. I've noticed that only the first author plus "et al." is displayed for works with more than three authors. That's fine with me for in-text-citations, but I'd rather have the complete author information in the bibliography. How can I do that?