Generalauthor name formatting in chcago.bst

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aali
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author name formatting in chcago.bst

Post by aali »

Hi,
I'm using chicago.bst for my bibliographystyle, and the way multiple authors are listed comes out wrong. An example of an entry is:

@ARTICLE{boxtiao:1962,
author = "G. ~E. ~P. Box and G. ~C. Tiao ",
title = "A further look at robustness via Bayes theorem",
journal="Biometrika",
year="1962",
volume="49",
pages="419--432"}

I want to see the authors listed as:

Box, G. E. P. and Tiao, G. C.

but when I bibtex my file, the references come out as:

Box, G. E. P. and G. C. Tiao

I tried putting the last names before the initials in my *.bib file but it doesn't fix the problem. Anyone have any idea what I can do, or why this is happening?

Thanks!
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Sorny
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author name formatting in chcago.bst

Post by Sorny »

Do you have to use chicago? I had a look at the example of this style on
"http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html" ..Personally I don't like how it prints out the citation in the text.

I prefer natbib.sty , using plainnat.bst

It gives out something like this in the text

\citep produces [Box and Tiao, 1962]
\citet produces Box and Tiao [1962]

and writes it out in the reference as

G. E. P. Box and G. C. Tiao. A further look at robustness via bayes theorem. Biometrika, 49:419{432, 1962.

It is not exactly what you want , but it is better than chicago in my opinion. Hope it helps.
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