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kimpa-h
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Problems with the order of the authors in bibliography

Post by kimpa-h »

Hi.

I'm new to LaTeX but I feel like I understand it quite well.

Though everything has been going fine, I'm having problems with my bibliography.
I'm using biblatex (biber).

At the moment I am writing my thesis and it's a couple of months until submission, but I'd like to get it right from the start so I don't have to stress when the submission is closing in.

My problem:
I want my references to look like it's "harvard-style" and I read somewhere that the closest to the harvard-style is "style=authoryear-icomp". And everything seems just fine, except that the names of the authors are not arranged as I want them to. It seems like LaTeX isn't registering the names as first/lastnames.

An example from the bibliography:
Lastname, Firstname (20XX). "Some title of something"....
There are no problems with just one author. But adding more authors creates problems, as such;

Lastname, Firstname, Firstname2, Lastname2, and Firstname3, Lastname3 (20XX). "Title..."...

What I want is:
Lastname, Firstname, Lastname2, Firstname2, and Lastname3, Firstname3 (20XX)....

This is the important parts of my project:

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\usepackage[
            backend=biber,
            style=authoryear-icomp,
            sorting=nyt
            ]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{sample.bib}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc, title={Bibliography}]
And my sample.bib:

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@book{barn,
    title={The linguistics of the latin language},
    author={Barney, R.},
    isbn={},
    year={2011},
    publisher={},
    location=""
}

@article{barn2,
    author="Barney, K. and Smith, E. and Barney, R.",
    title="The fascination of Latin",
    journal="The Latin Journal",
    volume="22",
    year="2014",
    month="Feb"
}
Would be so thankful for any help I could get.

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Re: Problems with the order of the authors in bibliography

Post by Johannes_B »

Welcome,
can you extand your example and make it compilable so we can provide solutions faster and easier?
The smart way: Calm down and take a deep breath, read posts and provided links attentively, try to understand and ask if necessary.
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