General ⇒ tilde characters in bibliography doesn't work?

[darckhart]

One of the authors for a paper I am referencing has a tilde n in his name, but using the usual command \~{n} does not seem to work in the bibliography. I am using the IEEEtran bibliography style (ieeetran.bst) where perhaps the macro fixing the author names ("John Middle Smith" will become "J. M. Smith") is messing it up ?

This is what I enter:

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@article{ref12,
      author = "Ricardo Ba\`{n}uelas and Jiju Antony",
      title = "blah blah",
      journal = "blah blah",
}

I can't type how it would look on here, but suffice to say it should have been "R. Banuelas and J. Antony" (imagine the tilde is on the n correctly).
Instead I get "R. B. nuelas and J. Antony" Any ideas? or anyone with experience with the IEEEtran bib style can confirm? Thanks.

Also, don't know if this is related or not but as extra information I have not loaded the babel package because it is known to interfere with the ieeetran class.

[darckhart]

Ok I figured it out. It was simpler than I made it out to be. I forgot that the stuff is encapsulated by quotation marks, e.g., author = "first middle last", so all I had to do was put braces around the command like so: author = "Ricardo Ba{\~n}uelas"