Re: Bibtex question: van von de di della etc Name: HowTo?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2014/1/13 Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>

> Thanks for this. Is there a site which shows examples for various styles
> which give an output like
>
> Iglesia, de la
>
> in the references.
>
> I used Kluwer style and the output is
>
> de la Iglesia
>


I am not aware of any. There are several bibtex style comparision sites
online, but none uses a von-example.

However, tweaking an existing style file should not be too hard. For
instance, in Kluwer, you'll find:

FUNCTION {format.authors}
{ author empty$
    { "" }
    { "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}" author format.names }
  if$
}

FUNCTION {format.editors}
{ editor empty$
    { "" }
    { "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}" editor format.names
      editor num.names$ #1 >
    { " (eds)" * }
    { " (ed.)" * }
      if$
    }
  if$
}

Where you have:

vv = von-part (spelled-out)
ll = Last name (spelled-out)
jj = junior-part (spelled-out)
f. = first name (abbreviated).

So, without testing, I suppose the following change will do the trick:

FUNCTION {format.authors}
{ author empty$
    { "" }
    { "{ll}{, jj}{, f.}{~vv}" author format.names }
  if$
}

FUNCTION {format.editors}
{ editor empty$
    { "" }
    { "{ll}{, jj}{, f.}{~vv}" editor format.names
      editor num.names$ #1 >
    { " (eds)" * }
    { " (ed.)" * }
      if$
    }
  if$
}

As always: do not modify the original file directly, but make a copy.

HTH
Jürgen


> Wolfgang
>