General ⇒ Names of book editors not appearing in bibliography

[JWalkup]

I have the following entry in my bibtex file:

@BOOK{Anderson2001,
AUTHOR = {Airasian, L. W. and Cruikshank, K. A. and Mayer, R. E. and Wittrock, M. C.},
editor = {Anderson, L. W. and Krathwohl, D. R.},
TITLE = {A Revision of {B}loom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives},
PUBLISHER = {Longman},
YEAR = {2001},
address = {New York}
}

It runs fine, but the problem is that the editors (Anderson and Krathwohl) do not appear in the resulting bibliography. The authors are listed, along with the title and the other information, but no editors. I have used LaTeX for many years and I don't recall this problem ever appearing before.

Any ideas?

Here is the call to the bibliography file in the main Latex file:

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{C:/bibfiles/ruby}

[Juanjo]

It is convenient to look the blg file after a BibTeX run. There you'll find the following warning:

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Database file #1: ruby.bib
Warning--can't use both author and editor fields in Anderson2001

The message self explains the problem. Both fields, author and editor, are required in a @book entry, but you can't use both simultaneously. This kind of entry is different to, say, @incollection, where you can cite a part of a book having its own title (so there are authors of that part and maybe editors of the book).

After some searches, I've realized that, in fact, there are two different editions with the same title: complete (ISBN 0321084055), and abridged (ISBN 080131903X). Look the different covers here and here. In both cases there are two editors (Anderson, L. W. and Krathwohl) and six contributors (D. R. and Airasian, P. W. and Cruikshank, K. A. and Mayer, R. E. and Pintrich, P. R. and Raths, J. and Wittrock, M. C.). I think you can consider all of them as authors. So, you may have two different entries:

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@BOOK{Anderson2001a,
AUTHOR = {Anderson, L. W. and Krathwohl, D. R. and Airasian, P. W. and 
          Cruikshank, K. A. and Mayer, R. E. and Pintrich, P. R. and 
          Raths, J. and Wittrock, M. C.},
TITLE = {A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of {B}loom's 
         Taxonomy of Educational Objectives},
PUBLISHER = {Allyn \& Bacon},
YEAR = {2001},
EDITION ={Abridged}
}
@BOOK{Anderson2000c,
AUTHOR = {Anderson, L. W. and Krathwohl, D. R. and Airasian, P. W. and 
          Cruikshank, K. A. and Mayer, R. E. and Pintrich, P. R. and 
          Raths, J. and Wittrock, M. C.},
TITLE = {A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of {B}loom's 
         Taxonomy of Educational Objectives},
PUBLISHER = {Longman},
YEAR = {2001},
EDITION={Complete}
}

Longman and Allyn & Bacon seem to belong to Pearson. There are also differences on the publication year depending on sources: in Amazone, for example, it is 2000.

[JWalkup]

Wow. That is a tremendous effort on your part and I truly appreciate it.