Punctuation between authors in bibliography?

Question

I am finalizing my doctoral dissertation in LaTeX, and before printing my university has some very specific requirements regarding the formatting of the references section. Using makebst I have been able to reproduce most of them, but one thing has me baffled.

My university requires that author names be separated by dashes, like so:

Feeny, David F. – Willcocks, Leslie P. (1998) Core IS capabilities for exploiting information technology. Sloan Management Review, Vol. 39 (3), 9–21.

How can I edit my custom .bst file so that it will separate authors by - instead of by commas?

Answer 1

If you're willing to switch to biblatex, here's a solution that uses en-dashes as name separators (and meets your other formatting requirements for the article entry type):

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}

\usepackage{xpatch}

% Last name always before first name for authors
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}

% Unbreakable space -- en-dash -- space as separator between author names
\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{~--\space}
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{~--\space}

% No period after year
\xapptobibmacro{date+extrayear}{%
  \nopunct
}{}{}

% Titles of articles not inside quotation marks
\DeclareFieldFormat
    [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]{title}{#1}

% No "In: " before journal titles of articles
\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
    \ifentrytype{article}{}{\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}

% Comma before volume of articles
\xpretobibmacro{volume+number+eid}{%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
}{}{}

% "Volume" capitalized for articles
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{volume}{\bibsentence\bibstring{volume}~#1}

% Unbreakable space instead of dot before number of articles
\xpatchbibmacro{volume+number+eid}{%
  \setunit*{\adddot}%
}{%
  \setunit*{\addnbspace}%
}{}{}

% Number of articles in parentheses
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{number}{\mkbibparens{#1}}

% No prefix for pages
\DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Fee98,
  author = {Feeny, David F. and Willcocks, Leslie P.},
  year = {1998},
  title = {Core IS capabilities for exploiting information technology},
  journaltitle = {Sloan Management Review},
  volume = {39},
  number = {3},
  pages = {9--21},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

See also Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles.