I generate my bibliograhy with biblatex
and biblatex-gost
.
I need to tweak the display of authors in the bibliography:
- The whole list of authors should start with
\by
- The initials should be placed before the surname
- The initials should b separated with
\,
- There should be a
~
between initials and a surname
Thus, I need e.g.
\by C.\,J.~Goodwin, A.~Smith
Point 3 looks solved, but other do not.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=gost-numeric,sorting=none]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{cgood1980,
Author = {Charles John Goodwin and Alice Smith},
Journal = {Sociological Inquiry},
Number = {3-4},
Pages = {272-302},
Title = {Restarts at turn-beginning},
Volume = 50,
Year = 1984,
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\parencite{cgood1980}
\renewcommand*{\bibinitdelim}{\textbackslash,} % Works perfectly!
% Desired result:
% \by C.\,J.~Goodwin, A.~Smith
%\renewcommand*{\bibinitperiod}{\~{\space}} % Does NOT what I need
%\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first} % No effect!
%\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{first-last} % No effect!
%\DeclareNameAlias{headingname:family-given}{last-first} % No effect!
%\DeclareNameAlias{headingname:family-given}{first-last} % No effect!
\printbibliography
\end{document}
I realize that (obviously!) it shouldn't be GOST-complaint; indeed, my goal is much more complex: I'm trying to create a workaround which should convert usual biblatex
bibliography to amsbib
-complaint one (amsbib
is a dark Russian magic invented in Steklov Institute of Mathematics; like a guinea pig, it has nothing common neither with AMS nor with BibTeX). De-facto my solution is a wrapper over biblatex2bibitem
, see also this question. The problem with authors seems to be the last known one that I have to solve; all the others are rather pathological.