biblatex : Warning-- invalid format of field 'month'

[jro...@gmail.com]

I use biblatex to format my citations and bibliography using
style=authoryear. My bib file is generated using jabref.
All is working well except for the message "Warning-- invalid format
of field 'month' in entry..." that I get for all the references.

I can't find any problem in the fields 'month' of the bib file which
all seem correct : {Jan}, {Feb} etc.....

Any clue ?

Thanks

Jacques

[Simon Spiegel]

Month is an integer field, that means Janury is {1}, February {2} etc.

Simon

[Christof Winter]

jan instead of {Jan}, feb instead of {Feb}, etc. should work!

Christof

[Simon Spiegel]

On 2008-10-07 10:45:24 -0400, Christof Winter
<win...@biotec.tu-dresden.de> said:

It wont. Biblatex uses integers for dates (see my other post).

simon

[jro...@gmail.com]

> >> I use biblatex to format my citations and bibliography using
> >> style=authoryear. My bib file is generated using jabref.
> >> All is working well except for the message "Warning-- invalid format
> >> of field 'month' in entry..." that I get for all the references.
>
> >> I can't find any problem in the fields 'month' of the bib file which
> >> all seem correct  : {Jan}, {Feb} etc.....
>
> >> Any clue ?
>
> >> Thanks
>
> >> Jacques
>
> > jan instead of {Jan}, feb instead of {Feb}, etc. should work!
>
> It wont. Biblatex uses integers for dates (see my other post).
>

> simon- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -
>
> - Afficher le texte des messages précédents -

Actually both solutions do the trick : {Jan} does not work, but {1}
and jan (without braces) are recognized as january.
Now I have to get Jabref automatically output the correct syntax for
the month field.
Many thanks to both of you.

Jacques.

[Simon Spiegel]

On 2008-10-07 11:37:24 -0400, jro...@gmail.com said:

>>>
>>
>> It wont. Biblatex uses integers for dates (see my other post).
>>
>> simon- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -
>>
>> - Afficher le texte des messages précédents -
>
> Actually both solutions do the trick : {Jan} does not work, but {1}
> and jan (without braces) are recognized as january.
> Now I have to get Jabref automatically output the correct syntax for
> the month field.
> Many thanks to both of you.

You're correct. Biblatex's documentation says the following:

"2.3.7 Months and journal issues
The month field is an integer field. The bibliography style converts the month to
a language-dependent string, ordinal, or date as required. For backwards com-
patibility, you may also use the following three-letter abbreviations
in bib files:
jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, dec. Note that
these abbre-
viations are BibTeX strings which must be given without any braces or quotes.
When using them, don’t say month={jan} or month="jan" but month=jan. It is
not possible to specify a month such as month={8/9}. With special cases such as
double issues of journals, the issue should be given in the issue field instead.
The placement of the issue field in @article entries is similar to and overrides
the month field."

simon

[Jellby]

Among other things, jro...@gmail.com saw fit to write:

> Actually both solutions do the trick : {Jan} does not work, but {1}
> and jan (without braces) are recognized as january.
> Now I have to get Jabref automatically output the correct syntax for
> the month field.

In Jabref, write "#jan#" (without the quotes), that writes "jan" (without
braces) in the .bib file.

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