I created a thread on pandoc-discuss to ask about a problem I am having referencing a organization as an author.
I am using BibDesk 1.5.10 and attempting to call the following reference in my bibliography using # References and pandoc -V geometry:margin=1in -o output.pdf input.md --csl=apa.csl --bibliography=refs.bib -N --template=latex.template
@techreport{KenyaDHS:2010,
Author = {{Kenya National Bureau of Statistics} and {ICF Macro}},
Date-Added = {2012-12-09 19:12:17 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2012-12-09 19:27:04 +0000},
Institution = {KNBS and ICF Macro},
Title = {Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-09},
Year = {2010}}
In the text this appears as (Statistics & Macro, 2010). In the works cited, it appears as Statistics, K. N. B. of, & Macro, I. C. F. (2010). I can't seem to get it into the format (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics & ICF Macro) and Kenya National Bureau of Statistics & ICF Macro (2010).
Does anyone notice any errors in my approach? I think putting the organization authors in {} should keep it from going into Lastname, First mode.
A moderator mentioned the following:
"Unfortunately the bibutils parser, which we rely on to parse bibtex files, doesn't recognize the grouping {}.
I’d second that. Using extra curly braces is bibtex’s and biblatex’s standard – from the biblatex manual: “Corporate authors and editors are given in the author or editor field, respectively. Note that they must be wrapped in an extra pair of curly braces to prevent data parsing from treating them as personal names which are to be dissected into their components.”
I have seen that bibutils has -a and -c options to specify files of “corporation names” and “names that shouldn't be mangled”.
However, the default, at least for for bibtex and biblatex sources, should be to use the extra curly braces mechanism – that’s superior by far.
Besides, I never got -a or -c working anyway: Didn’t find documentation on the file format, and plain, i.e., one name per line, didn’t do the trick.
Last edit: Nick Bart 2012-12-11
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I've rewritten the name mangling code and it does a much better job with names in the bibtex and biblatex (and the other reference types, actually). This should finally be fixed in version 4.16.
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Hi,
I created a thread on pandoc-discuss to ask about a problem I am having referencing a organization as an author.
I am using BibDesk 1.5.10 and attempting to call the following reference in my bibliography using # References and pandoc -V geometry:margin=1in -o output.pdf input.md --csl=apa.csl --bibliography=refs.bib -N --template=latex.template
@techreport{KenyaDHS:2010,
Author = {{Kenya National Bureau of Statistics} and {ICF Macro}},
Date-Added = {2012-12-09 19:12:17 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2012-12-09 19:27:04 +0000},
Institution = {KNBS and ICF Macro},
Title = {Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-09},
Year = {2010}}
In the text this appears as (Statistics & Macro, 2010). In the works cited, it appears as Statistics, K. N. B. of, & Macro, I. C. F. (2010). I can't seem to get it into the format (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics & ICF Macro) and Kenya National Bureau of Statistics & ICF Macro (2010).
Does anyone notice any errors in my approach? I think putting the organization authors in {} should keep it from going into Lastname, First mode.
A moderator mentioned the following:
"Unfortunately the bibutils parser, which we rely on to parse bibtex files, doesn't recognize the grouping {}.
I found two other threads with a similar question:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/_ZQjRK-Xhwc/discussion
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/cA4r2EAso24/discussion
Would it be possible to add support for the grouping {}?
Thanks!
Eric
I’d second that. Using extra curly braces is bibtex’s and biblatex’s standard – from the biblatex manual: “Corporate authors and editors are given in the author or editor field, respectively. Note that they must be wrapped in an extra pair of curly braces to prevent data parsing from treating them as personal names which are to be dissected into their components.”
I have seen that bibutils has -a and -c options to specify files of “corporation names” and “names that shouldn't be mangled”.
However, the default, at least for for bibtex and biblatex sources, should be to use the extra curly braces mechanism – that’s superior by far.
Besides, I never got -a or -c working anyway: Didn’t find documentation on the file format, and plain, i.e., one name per line, didn’t do the trick.
Last edit: Nick Bart 2012-12-11
I've rewritten the name mangling code and it does a much better job with names in the bibtex and biblatex (and the other reference types, actually). This should finally be fixed in version 4.16.