BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ custom-bib | Missing Authors in Reference List

[tgenade]

Hello,

I'm using "makebst" from custom-bib to make a custom *.bst file. For some reason the bibliography is given without the authors. It produces:

2008. The use of total protein stains as loading controls: an alternative to high abundance single protein controls in semi-quantitative immunoblotting. J. Neurosci. Methods 172, 250–254.

instead of:

Aldridge GM, Podrebarac DM, Greenough WT, Weiler IJ (2008) The use of total protein stains as loading controls: an alternative to high abundance single protein controls in semi-quantitative immunoblotting. J. Neurosci. Methods 172, 250–254.

In the main text the references appear as desired (e.g. Aldrige et al, 2008) so it is really just a problem with the reference list where the authors are not listed.

I can't figure out what is wrong. The file follows below. If anyone can find the fault please let me know! I am using a 2011 distribution of MiKTeX and formatting in TeXworks.


Thanks

[kaiserkarl13]

Your .bst file seems to be corrupt. I advise running LaTeX on the .dbj file again. If that doesn't work, run "latex makebst" again and start over.

[tgenade]

Thanks for the reply. I did recompile the bst file several times with makebst and no luck... I managed to modify a similar bst file to meet my needs in the interim. I tried other bst compilations and it seems making a bst file with the DOI parameter seems to be causing trouble. I'm not 100% sure of this but I did make the bst using makebst on two different computers and both gave the same result.

Thanks for the suggestions but I think this one is just one of those mysteries we will have to live with.

[kaiserkarl13]

If you post the .dbj file, someone might be able to take a look at it and find out what went wrong.