General ⇒ formatting author name when it is an acronym

[ramakan]

Hi. I don't see a 'bibliography' topic, so I'm posting here. I have a reference in my .bib file as such:

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@techreport{ipcc_2007,
	title = {Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report},
	author = {{(IPCC)} Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change },
	year = {2007}
},

When I do a parenthetical reference using \citep{ipcc_2007}, the author name is listed as: "(on Climate Change, 2007)", and in the bibliography section at the end, it's listed as: "Climate Change, I. I. P. (2007). Climate change 2007: Synthesis report. Technical report."

I would like the parenthetical reference to be listed as "(IPCC, 2007)", and the bibliography should list the acronym, followed by the full name spelled out. It's obviously treating the IPCC author string as a person's name.

Thanks for any assistance. I am using the memoir document class with natbib and compiling against PDFLatex, if that's useful.

[cgnieder]

Hi ramakan,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

You didn't say how you create your bibliography nor which style you're using so I assumend natbib with BibTeX and the style plainnat...

The idea is the following: use a command for the long version that is defined to expand to nothing. Just before the bibliography redefine it to be the long version of the acronym. In order to have the command not expanded prematurely it needs to be robust hence the use of \DeclareRobustCommand. Since this command does not check if a command is already defined it can be used twice:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
% the filecontents is only here to keep the example self-contained
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@techreport{ipcc_2007,
  title  = {Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report},
  author = {{(IPCC)\IPCClongname}},
  year   = {2007}
}
\end{filecontents}

\DeclareRobustCommand\IPCClongname{}
\begin{document}

\citep{ipcc_2007}

\DeclareRobustCommand\IPCClongname{ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

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Regards