BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Repeated author

[Tim]

Just finishing up my thesis. Our school style guide specifies that if the same author(s) is listed for multiple works, then after the first time the author is mentioned in the bibliography, subsequent references should use "----" insead of the author's name. For example, if Bob Smith is cited twice, the bibliography should read:

Safe, Muck. Book title. 2005.
Smith, Bob. "Some article" A cool journal. 2001.
-----. "Bob's other article" An even better journal. 2005.
Snoody. ...

I haven't found any BibTeX styles that can do this. Am I missing something or has this not yet been done in LaTeX?

Thanks,
Tim

[gmedina]

Of course it has been done. The jurabib package, for example, handles this through the keyword ibidem; i.e., you can use something like

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\usepackage[bibformat=ibidem]{jurabib}

Please refer to the package documentation for further information.