I am editing a document to be submitted to an Elsevier journal. The Elsevier document class uses natbib to handle references. I am encountering a problem with the appearance of references that have an institution or organization as the author. For example, if the author is "US Department of Energy", I know I can force the output to appear as I've specified using double braces:
Author = {{US Department of Energy}}
The trouble I'm having is that while this achieves the desired effect, bibtex is treating the author name as a last name, so it gets formatted in the references list as:
US Department of Energy, .
Using \usepackage[nodots]{numcompress}
gets rid of the comma, but there will still be a space between the end of the author and the period. Looking at the bbl file reveals that bibtex is adding \xfnm[]
after the author name. If I remove this element in the author name in the bbl file, the extra comma and space go away. I know that the problem is created in part because of the bst file I'm using, but I'm not supposed to substitute another format. Is there anything I can do to prevent this extra element from being added to the bbl file by bibtex in the first place?
MWE: tex markup
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Here I am going to use a reference with an institutional author~\cite{BTS2012}.
\bibliographystyle{model3-num-names}
\bibliography{sources}
\end{document}
MWE: bibtex file (sources.bib)
@misc{BTS2012,
Author= {{Bureau of Transportation Statistics}},
Howpublished = {\url{http://www.bts.gov/programs/national_household_travel_survey/daily_travel.html}},
Publisher = {{Department of Transportation}},
Title = {{National Household Travel Survey: Daily Travel Quick Facts}},
Year = {2012}}
Download link for model3-num-names.bst if needed.
New MWE (demonstrating author name double period formatting problem)
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{BTS2012,
Author= {{Bureau of Transportation Statistics}},
Howpublished = {\url{http://www.bts.gov/programs/national_household_travel_survey/daily_travel.html}},
Publisher = {{Department of Transportation}},
Title = {{National Household Travel Survey: Daily Travel Quick Facts}},
Year = {2012}}
@article{Shaw1985,
Author = {Shaw, John J and Gendron, Robert F and Bertsekas, Dimitri P},
Journal = {IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems},
Number = {2},
Pages = {286--294},
Title = {{Optimal Scheduling of Large Hydrothermal Power Systems}},
Volume = {104},
Year = {1985}}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[nodots]{numcompress}
\begin{document}
Here's a reference with an institutional author~\cite{BTS2012}. Here's a journal reference~\cite{Shaw1985}. Notice how the periods terminating the authors' first and middle initials have been removed, and thus only a final period terminates the list of author names, rather than a terminating double period (which would appear as Bertsekas, D.P..).
\bibliographystyle{model3-num-names}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
Download link for the modified version of the numcompress package (see line 167).