BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citation of an annual Company Report

[msaqib]

Hi everyone,

I am citing a company's annual report as follows:

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@misc{ptaannreport,
  title={{Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, 2011 Annual Report}},
  author={Pakistan Telecommunication Authority},
  howpublished={\url{http://bit.ly/S8YtWS}},
  month={December},
  year={2011}
}

However, this comes out in PDF as:

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P. T. Authority, “Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, 2011 Annual
Report,” http://bit.ly/S8YtWS, December 2011.

That is clearly not what I want. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority shouldn't be abbreviated as P. T. Authority.

Am I using the correct way to make that citation? How should I fix the above formatting faults?


Thanks
Saqib

[localghost]

If I supplement your loosely code snippet to a proper minimal example, I am not able to reproduce the described misbehaviour. The output is attached.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{ptaannreport,
  title={Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, 2011 Annual Report},
  author={Pakistan Telecommunication Authority},
  howpublished={\url{http://bit.ly/S8YtWS}},
  month={December},
  year={2011}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}

\begin{document}
  \nocite{*}
  \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

So, for an adequate problem description and in order to avoid guesswork and random shots you should provide an appropriate example.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[msaqib]

Thorsten
Thanks for the reply. Perhaps it is the IEEETran.bst file that causes it?
I am using the IEEETran style file, and no other customizations. If the above question doesn't cause and progress, I'll see if I can post a more complete example. I'm trying to upload the .bst file but apparently it isn't working. It is also available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... ran/bibtex

[localghost]

[…] I'm trying to upload the .bst file but apparently it isn't working. […]

No upload needed. The file is publicly available. Kindly prepare a proper minimal example that clearly shows what you are doing. And it would be very nice if you follow given links in order to shorten the discussion.

However, it should be sufficient to group the author name with additional curly braces.

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@misc{ptaannreport,
  title={Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, 2011 Annual Report},
  author={{Pakistan Telecommunication Authority}},
  howpublished={\url{http://bit.ly/S8YtWS}},
  month={December},
  year={2011}
}

[msaqib]

The additional double quotes helped me solve my problem.
Thanks a lot and sorry about not providing a MWE to begin with.