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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label manyauthor</title>
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<h3>BibTeX doesn’t understand lists of names</h3>
<p>BibTeX has a strict syntax for lists of authors’ (or editors’)
names in the BibTeX data file; if you write the list of names in a
“natural”-seeming way, the chances are you will confuse BibTeX,
and the output produced will be quite different from what you had
hoped.
<p>Names should be expressed in one of the forms
<blockquote>
<pre>
First Last
Last, First
Last, Suffix, First
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
and lists of names should be separated with “<code>and</code>”.
For example:
<blockquote>
<pre>
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs, John P. Doe &
Another Idiot}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
falls foul of two of the above rules: a syntactically significant
comma appears in an incorrect place, and ‘<code>\</code><code>&</code>’ is being used as a
name separator. The output of the above might be something like:
<blockquote>
<pre>
John P. Doe & Another Idiot Fred Q. Bloggs
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
because “John P. Doe & Another Idiot has become the ‘first name’,
while “Fred Q. Bloggs” has become the ‘last name’ of a single
person. The example should have been written:
<blockquote>
<pre>
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and John P. Doe and
Another Idiot}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
Some bibliography styles implement clever acrobatics with very long
author lists. You can force truncation by using the pseudo-name
“<code>others</code>”, which will usually translate to something like
“<em>et al</em>” in the typeset output. So, if Mr. Bloggs wanted to
distract attention from his co-authors, he would write:
<blockquote>
<pre>
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and others}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor</a>
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