Which bibliography style gives me author names formatted say as, Hazard BD?

Question

To be clear: I want Hazard BD, not Hazard, B.D. Citations of this type are found in the Elsevier Journal, Communications in Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulations.

Answer 1

• As I pointed out in the comments, the guidelines of that journal require periods in first name abbreviations, so I am not sure whether you still want that.
• Omitting the periods is IMHO bad typographical style, so I am not sure whether you should want that.
• That said, if you insist on that, make a copy of a bibtex style that comes closest to what you want, say myplain.bst. Open it, and locate the function format.names, where a string like "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" is to be found. Replace that string with "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f{}}", and save your new style. Explanation: the final {, f{}} part tells BibTeX to put the first names last, in abbreviated form, and without period. The pair of braces {} after the f suppresses spaces between the initials.

Answer 2

One way is to use biblatex and its fistinits=true,terseinits=true options.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[firstinits=true,terseinits=true]{biblatex}

\DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Hazard, Benjamin D.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}