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52 questions linked to/from How should I type author names in a bib file?
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How to cite chapter in book?
Is there any source where I can find the required fields in my bibliography file to refer to a chapter within a book? I found @inbook, but I cannot find the fields (author=, chapter=... ). In general ...
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Troubleshooting for biber
I'm trying to switch from BibTeX to biber and ran into the problem that biber does not produce any output file. I noticed several questions about problems with biber e.g.,
Biblatex/biber does not ...
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Biblatex, capitalization of arabic names and name prefixes
As we know, using the useprefix option, when name prefixes like von, della etc. are present in the bibliography, enables us to change name sorting as well as capitalize those prefixes using commands ...
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Reference an Organization on Bibtex
I have a quick question on how to reference organizations that contain more than one word.
For example, I am using this syntax,
@misc{Directive2010,
address = {Brussels},
author = {European ...
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Is there a program/script to check BibTeX files against compliance (e.g. APA style)? [closed]
Is there a program or a script to check BibTeX files against compliance against a standard (e.g. APA style)?
For example, author with two initials should be stored with the two initials separated by ...
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Normalize authors names in .bib file
As most of you may know, there are many acceptable ways of writing authors names. However, when I export .bib entries from software like Zotero (which sometimes exports Last, First names and sometimes ...
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How can I properly force an author name in Biblatex?
I have two issues with the authors names, and I think both of them can be solved by the same answer.
I read somewhere that I should use braces ("{" and "}") in order to explicitly ...
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\printbibliography causes "missing $ inserted" error
I want to get my references straight. I use Biber and it recognizes the .bib file and correctly refers to them when I cite them. However, when I want to print the references using \printbibliography, ...
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The word "Print" appears after every source using \printbibliography
I am using the following:
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage[english,swedish]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xcolor,colortbl}
\usepackage[backend=...
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biber and ~ provides an incorrect output
As I usually do, I use ~ when I use abbreviations in bibliographies. To my surprise, when I do this using biber it duplicates the initials that are abbreviated. Nevertheless, if I change to backend=...
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Automatically reorder author names in bibtex
I have a bibtex file with over 1000 publications in it and I would like to homogeneize this database.
For this purpose I used bibclean which worked pretty well. However bibclean give me names in the ...
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Bold name in bib when having a prefix in last name
I am using the template from here: https://www.overleaf.com/16456399bnxqhtkjwzft#/63153901/
I am trying to make my name bold in the publications list by setting in the .tex file:
\myname{de\...
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Should author field in bib files be in "First Last" format or "Last, First" format?
Is there a preferred way of writing the author name in .bib files between the two formats below?
@book{tgt,
title = {The Great Title},
author = {Jane Doe and Ron Wonder},
year = {2022},
...
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Some fields don't show up or are missing formatting in the bibliography even though I have entries for them
I am trying to add several types of bibliography entries using the "standard" BibLaTeX options in LaTex editor. For example:
I have a multi-author book, so I enter each name in the Author field with ...
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How to correctly display and separate the author names in a bibliographic entry?
How to correctly display and to separate among the BibLaTeX's author's names?
Code:
@book{atl1,
label = {SELLS},
author = {Cristopher TAVARES, Kirk FERTITTA, Brent RECTOR, Chris SELLS}...