[Tex/LaTex] Bibliography with author names as last, first

Question

I want to show in the bibliography, the authors last name first then the first name. How to do that?

Please refer to the attached code and bib file.

I have many references in bib file but for example I use only three.

Latex code

\documentclass[oneside,12pt,leqno]{book}
\input psfig.sty
\oddsidemargin=0pt
\evensidemargin=0pt
\topmargin=-0.5in
\textwidth=6.5in
\textheight=9.5in
%\topmargin=-1.5in
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{endnotes}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Test}
Old day at school \cite{abram1972,austrian1982,babbage1832}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{test}

\end{document}

Bib file is

@book{abram1972,
author               = {Abramowitz, M. I. and Stegun, I. A.},
owner                = {ray},
publisher            = {Dover Publications},
title                = {Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas,Graphs, and Mathematical Tables},
year                 = {1972},
}

@book{austrian1982,
__markedentry        = {[rayn:1]},
author               = {Austrian, Geoffrey D},
owner                = {mine_design},
publisher            = {Columbia University Press},
title                = {Herman Hollerith: forgotten giant of information processing},
year                 = {1982},
 }

@book{babbage1832,
__markedentry        = {[rayn:1]},
author               = {Babbage, Charles},
owner                = {mine_design},
publisher            = {Taylor \& Francis},
title                = {On the economy of machinery and manufactures},
year                 = {1832},
}

Answer 1

If you use biblatex+biber it's simple. The syntax for producing a bibliography is slightly different: you define the .bib files in the preamble with the \addbibresource command, load biblatex, and simply write\printbibliography where you want it to be. Note I changed the input encoding to utf8 as biber understands it.

Also, times is obsolete, you should use mathptmx or even better, newtx. I don't see why you should load psfig and epsfig, since you load `graphicx.

\documentclass[oneside,12pt,leqno]{book}
\oddsidemargin=0pt
\evensidemargin=0pt
\topmargin=-0.5in
\textwidth=6.5in
\textheight=9.5in
%\topmargin=-1.5in
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{endnotes}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@book{abram1972,
author = {Abramowitz, M. I. and Stegun, I. A.},
owner = {ray},
publisher = {Dover Publications},
title = {Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas,Graphs, and Mathematical Tables},
year = {1972},
}

@book{austrian1982,
__markedentry = {[rayn:1]},
author = {Austrian, Geoffrey D},
owner = {mine_design},
publisher = {Columbia University Press},
title = {Herman Hollerith: forgotten giant of information processing},
year = {1982},
 }

@book{babbage1832,
__markedentry = {[rayn:1]},
author = {Babbage, Charles},
owner = {mine_design},
publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
title = {On the economy of machinery and manufactures},
year = {1832},
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{test.bib}
 \DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test}
Old day at school \cite{abram1972,austrian1982,babbage1832}

\printbibliography

\end{document}