BibTeX, biblatex and biberProblem with successive authors

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biloud
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Problem with successive authors

Post by biloud »

Hi all,

I am using BibTex and I have a little problem with the formatting of my references. When I have the same author for several successive references, the author's name is replaced by a line in the bibliography.

For example:
[1] W. P. Mason, Electrical wave filters employing quartz crystals as elements, Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 13, pp. 405-452, 1934.

[2]--------, An electromechanical representation of a piezoelectric crystal used as a transducer, Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 14, pp. 718-723, 1935.

I would like the name of the author to appear in the second line of the bibliography. Any idea on how to do that?

Thanks

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josephwright
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Re: Problem with successive authors

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Start by telling us which BibTeX style you use: this is not the standard behaviour of most styles.
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biloud
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Re: Problem with successive authors

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The style is IEEEtranN.
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Re: Problem with successive authors

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Okay, IEEEtranN and related styles provide a mechanism to alter this behaviour from within LaTeX. Can you post an example of your preamble so I can see what class/packages you are using (some IEEE ones provides hooks to alter the behaviour more easily).
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biloud
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Problem with successive authors

Post by biloud »

Good morning,

Here is the part of the preamble containing the packages I am using:

\documentclass[b5paper,twoside,10pt]{book}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[bookmarks=true, linktocpage=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{array}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,
citecolor=black,
filecolor=black,
linkcolor=black,
urlcolor=black}
\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools}
\usepackage[fleqn]{amsmath}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{ccaption}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage[square, comma, numbers, sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage[PetersLenny]{fncychap}% change the chapter style
\usepackage{tocbibind}
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Problem with successive authors

Post by josephwright »

Okay, you need to create a BibTeX file with the entry

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@IEEEtranBSTCTL{IEEE:BSTcontrol,
  CTLdash_repeated_names = "no",
}
Let's call this file CTLIEEEtrans.bib.

Then in your LaTeX file, put

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\bstctlcite{IEEE:BSTcontrol}
in the preamble, and

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\bibliography{CTLIEEEtrans, ...}
(plus your databases, of course) in the document body.
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biloud
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Re: Problem with successive authors

Post by biloud »

Thank you,

Michael.
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