BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ [plaindin] seperate autors not with semicolons

[sempah]

How can I seperate more autors with an , and an "and"

My result looks like:

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[1] Autor1 ; Autor2 ; Autor3: Title.
(1999). http://url.com/index.html

What do I have to change to get something like this:

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[1] Autor1, Autor2 and Autor3: Title.
(1999). http://url.com/index.html

my bibtex file:

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@article{desc1999,
   author = {Autor1 and Autor2 and Autor3},
   title = {Title},
   publisher = {Prentice Hall},
   year = {1999},
   url = {http://url.com/index.html}
} 

[frabjous]

This sort of thing is determined by your bibliography style (.bst) file. You didn't mention which one you were using, or whether or not you could switch to another one. Please always try to produce a complete minimal working example allowing the problem to be duplicated.

Edit: just realized the "plaindin" was supposed to be an answer to this, perhaps? Is there some reason you are required to use plaindin?

[sempah]

no plaindin is not required, but I need a numeric order and this result (except the semicolons) looks great for me:

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[1] Autor1 ; Autor2 ; Autor3: Title.
(1999). http://url.com/index.html

Here is the minimal example:

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\begin{document}

Test\cite{Lindholm1999}

	\bibliographystyle{plaindin}
 	\bibliography{T987}	

\end{document}

bibtex file:

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@article{Lindholm1999,
	author 		= {Tim Lindholm and Frank Yellin and Max Muster},
	title 		= {The Java(tm) Virtual Machine Specification},
	publisher = {Prentice Hall},
	year 			= {1999},
	url 			= {http://www.blub.com/index.html}
}

[frabjous]

Have you tried simply using the plain style instead of plaindin? Or is there something you don't like about it?

[sempah]

Yes, I tried it, but the result looks like:

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[1] Tim Lindholm and Frank Yellin. The java(tm) virtual machine specication. 1999.

- no url
- and the title is lowercase

[frabjous]

To solve the url issue, you could use the plainurl style:

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report}

\begin{document}

Test\cite{Lindholm1999}

   \bibliographystyle{plainurl}
   \bibliography{sample}

\end{document}

For the uppercase issue, it's usually good practice to put an extra set of braces around any words in your bib file titles you want to ensure are uppercase:

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@article{Lindholm1999,
   author       = {Tim Lindholm and Frank Yellin and Max Muster},
   title       = {The {J}ava(tm) {V}irtual {M}achine Specification},
   publisher = {Prentice Hall},
   year          = {1999},
   url          = {http://www.blub.com/index.html}
}

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[sempah]

Thx for your help.
Okay this is a nice workaround to solve my problems.
But isn't there a native way to solve it?

[frabjous]

What do you mean by a "native way"? Do you mean, while using plaindin? I don't think so; you'd have rewrite the relevant part of plaindin.bst. I don't know how to do that off-hand, but if you wanted to give it a try, you could read Tame the BeaST.

If you really want control over your Bibliography styles, you could also consider switching from BibTeX to BibLaTeX.

[sempah]

Hmm, I changed the bibtex style to plainurl, but recognized something ...

my output:

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[24] Tim Lindholm and Frank Yellin. The java(tm) virtual machine specication.
1999. Available from: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/VMSpecTOC.doc.html [cited 13.09.2010].

cited is the result auf "lastchecked" in my bibtex.

1. I don't want "available from: ..." -> with plaindin the url will be formatted in another font.
2. The last checked date will be displayed as "Abruf: 13.09.2010"