BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Author replaced by Dash

[Jahan]

I have a really puzzling problem. I have the following entry:

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@article{crabtreeReview,
title = "Organometallic alkane CH activation",
author={R. Crabtree},
journal = "Journal of Organometallic Chemistry",
volume = "689",
number = "24",
pages = "4083 - 4091",
year = "2004",
}

Which ends up not showing the author's name. It shows a dash instead. When I change the spelling of the author's name (to Crabtreee for example) it accepts it and it shows up fine.

This is quite puzzling and frustrating.

[localghost]

Please prepare a self-contained and minimal example to avoid random shots and guesswork.


Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hello Jahan,

since you are new to the forum, you perhaps don't know yet why a minimal working example (MWE) is important and how to make one. Please follow the link and Thorsten's link to learn why and how.

Here I made an MWE which uses your code snippet but doesn't show the behavior:

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{crabtreeReview,
    title = "Organometallic alkane CH activation",
    author={R. Crabtree},
    journal = "Journal of Organometallic Chemistry",
    volume = "689",
    number = "24",
    pages = "4083 - 4091",
    year = "2004",
    }
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{Main text}
See \cite{crabtreeReview}.
\bibliography{\jobname}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document}

I took the time for this, to show how filecontents can be used for creating a MWE with a bibliography. Of course one can post a normal document and the bibliography as a separate file.

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As you can see, the problem doesn't appear. That's why further information is required to fix it, since we don't know what's in your code, besides the bib snippet.

Stefan