#5 Month saved incorrectly

[Anonymous]

Months are saved without {} and are not parsed by
Bibtex e.g.

@ARTICLE{Abraham:pz,
author = {U.S. Secretary of Energy Abraham, Spencer},
title = {U.S. National Energy Policy and Global
Energy Security},
year = {2004},
month = may,
publisher = {U.S. Government},
date-added = {2006-10-07 13:41:02 +0500},
date-modified = {2006-10-07 13:41:04 +0500},
keywords = {technology}
}

[Stein Strindhaug]

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The month field is SUPPOSED to be written using the buit in
three letter abbrevations (jan, feb, mar, etc. as in the
dropdownlist in the main panel on month), and to be parsed
as abbrevations they must be written without " " or { }. The
style file (.bst) shuld normally have defined these
abbrevations, so that it can be easily localized in other
languages. If you're sure the style you're using doesn't
define these abbrevations you could probably just add the
following abbrevation defenitions in the top of your .bib
file or paste them into the "paste from clipboard" window,
and say NO to expanding the abbrevations:
@string{jan = "January"}
@string{feb = "February"}
@string{mar = "March"}
@string{apr = "April"}
@string{may = "May"}

etc....
You can of course replace the full spelling ("January" etc.)
with the spelling in another language. I'm not a BibTeX
wizard, so I'm not sure how redefining these standard
abbrevations will work if your style file DOES define them,
bu I guess abbrevations in the .bib file will override the
standard ones.