[texhax] bibtex: Too many commas in name 1
Andreas Hadjiprocopis
The following bibtex entry causes bibtex to tell me that:
"Too many commas in name 1 of "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney,
P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks" for entry Arridge89
while executing---line 1090 of file plain.bst"
What am I doing wrong? Can't I have as many names as I like in the author
field?
(VERSION: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
and I use plain bibstyle and article documentclass)
bibtex entry that causes problem:
@Article{Arridge89,
author = "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney, P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks",
title = "Use of greyscale voxel databases for improved shading and segmentation",
journal = "Medical Informatics",
volume = "14",
number = "2",
pages = "157--171",
year = "1989",
abstract = "early lesion segmentation I"
}
thanking you in advance,
a.
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Andreas Hadjiprocopis
sorted the problem (use `and' instead of comma to separate names).
thanks again,
K Hollingworth
> Andreas Hadjiprocopis wrote:
>> Dear Texhax,
>>
>> The following bibtex entry causes bibtex to tell me that:
>> "Too many commas in name 1 of "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney,
>> P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks" for entry Arridge89
>> while executing---line 1090 of file plain.bst"
> you have to separate multiple authors with "and", not with commas:
> author = "S. R. Arridge and S. R. Grinrod and A. D. Linney and P. S. Tofts and D. Wicks"
> you can also say:
> author = "Arridge, S. R. and Grindrod, S. R. and Linney, A. D. and Tofts, P. S. and Wicks, D."
>
> here you use commas after the family name and before the initials.
> note, you also shouldn't have to use ~. bibtex is (generally) smart enough
> to figure out first and last name. you either use "first-name last-name"
> (without comma) or "last-name, first-name" (separated with a comma).
Has bibtex got smarter then? I definately remember a book (unfortunately
I cannot recall which one) advising me to use ties in bibtex to avoid
initials and family names getting seperated when there were several
authors.
Besides using ties has, as Donald Knuth predicted in his book, become
second nature. I find myself having to remember not to use them in
emails!
--
Kirsty Hollingworth <kh...@york.ac.uk>
Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5YW
Joost Kremers
>> note, you also shouldn't have to use ~. bibtex is (generally) smart enough
>> to figure out first and last name. you either use "first-name last-name"
>> (without comma) or "last-name, first-name" (separated with a comma).
>
> Has bibtex got smarter then? I definately remember a book (unfortunately
> I cannot recall which one) advising me to use ties in bibtex to avoid
> initials and family names getting seperated when there were several
> authors.
well, i have for example the following author in my database:
author = {Guasti, Maria Teresa and Rizzi, Luigi}
and bibtex handles that fine. it produces 'Guasti, M. T. & Rizzi, L.' in my
references list.
same if i write
author = {Maria Teresa Guasti and Luigi Rizzi}
or am i missing something?
--
Joost Kremers http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jkremers
since when is vi an editor? a discussion on vi belongs in
comp.tools.unusable or something...
Victor Lua~na Cabal
: author = "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney, P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks",
Several answers have told you to separate names using "and" instead of
commas. *In addition*, you must separate initials with a blank space, or
bibtex can drop anything after the first initial. Then:
author = "S. R. Arridge and S. R. Grindrod and A. D. Linney",
author = {S. R. Arridge and S. R. Grindrod and A. D. Linney},
or, better when non-english names can appear,
author = "Mart{\'\i}n S{\'a}nchez, Nicol{\'a}s
and von Humboldt, Nicholas, Jr.
and {\'C}{\~i}zek, Mariusz",
(resemblance to actual names is accidental and unintentional).
Regards,
V{\'\i}ctor Lua{\~n}a
Robin Fairbairns
> "Too many commas in name 1 of "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney,
> P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks" for entry Arridge89
> while executing---line 1090 of file plain.bst"
>
> field?
>
> (VERSION: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> and I use plain bibstyle and article documentclass)
>
> bibtex entry that causes problem:
>
> @Article{Arridge89,
> journal = "Medical Informatics",
> volume = "14",
> number = "2",
> pages = "157--171",
> year = "1989",
> abstract = "early lesion segmentation I"
> }
where you've put commas, you should use "and" -- a faq; see:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor
John Burt
author field, separating last names from first names (in "last,
first" format) and separating names of different authors. BibTeX only
lets you use them one way.
John
sanats...@gmail.com
Thank you