General ⇒ bibtex and author's first name starting with McC

[christina_t]

Hi

I need some help to fix something in my bibliography. I am using \bibliographystyle{humannat}
and I want the following bibtex item (author's name) to appear in my bibliography as Adams, J. McC.:


@BOOK{adams1997,
AUTHOR = {Adams, J. McC.},
TITLE = "{Title of the Book}",
PUBLISHER = {Oxford University Press},
YEAR = {1997},
}

I tried putting the whole name in {} as in {{Adams, J. McC.}}, but this made the entry within the text appear as Adams, J McC. 1997, which I do not want. Then I also tried with {Adams, J. "McC."}, which again did not work as it just put only the M. What else could I do?

Many thanks in advance!

Christina

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Christina,

you could try

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AUTHOR = {Adams, J. {McC.}},

Stefan

[christina_t]

Hi Stefan and thanks for your reply

It still does not work. The author in the bibliography comes up as Adams, J. M.

[gmedina]

Hi Christina,

the problem comes from the way that some styles (humannat,apalike,etc.) use to format the names. In your case, a possible solution is the following:

With a text editor open the file humannat.bst and make a copy of this file in your working directory (i.e., the directory that contains your .tex file); save this copy as, for example, myhumannat.bst

Now open myhumannat.bst and search for this line:

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 s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}" format.name$ 't :=   % last name first

replace it with

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 s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, ff}" format.name$ 't :=   % last name first

and save this modified version of myhumannat.bst

In your .tex file change

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\bibliographystyle{humannat}

to

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\bibliographystyle{myhumannat}

and process your .tex file in the usual way to obtain the bibliography.

In the bibliographical database, your problematic reference can now be written in the following way:

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@BOOK{adams1997,
author = "Adams, J. McC.",
title = "{Title of the Book}",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
year = "1997",
}

[christina_t]

thanks a lot gmedina for the reply

it seems to work for this particular entry; however, all the other entries now that were like that:

@ARTICLE{Jones2002,
AUTHOR = {Jones, Steven J.},
TITLE = "{Article title}",
JOURNAL = {Journal},
YEAR = {2002},
volume = {89},
pages = {30-48},
}

have kept the first name in full and appear in the bibliography as : Jones, Steven J.

Is there any other way to just keep the McC. while also keeping the other entries as ie "Jones, S. J." ?

many thanks again

[gmedina]

Hi Christina,

I can only think of manually editing the others entries, using, for example,

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@ARTICLE{Jones2002,
AUTHOR = {Jones, S. J.},
TITLE = "{Article title}",
JOURNAL = {Journal},
YEAR = {2002},
volume = {89},
pages = {30-48},
} 

Edit: if you have problems with only one reference (the McC in your example) then an easier solution (that doesn't imply changing your .bib database) would be the following: use the standard humannat.bst style file. At the end of the typesetting process do the required change in the .bbl file. I mean the following: once your document (I'll call it mydoc.tex) is ready to be printed (or in its final version) then process it with (PDF)LaTeX and BiBTeX. Now, open the file mydoc.bbl and edit there manually the problematic entry writing McC. instead of M. Save mydoc.bbl and finish the compilation process with (PDF)LaTeX + (PDF)LaTeX, without using BiBTeX.

[christina_t]

thanks a lot gmedina! i ended up changing the other entries...