bibtexcapitalization
How do you set up your BibTeX style file (.bst) so that it makes author's surnames (last names) uppercase?
Example of what I want:
SILVERMAN, David. Interpreting qualitative data: methods for analysing
talk, text, and interaction. 2nd ed. London [etc.]: Sage, 2002. 325 p.
ISBN 0-7619-6865-2.
I've made a custom BibTeX .bst file for my needs. My current format.names.author is as follows: http://pastebin.com/efsgrwDR
First, some examples of names with Two-word surnames
Charles De Gaulle
Martin Van Buren
Kristin Scott Thomas
Helena Bonham Carter
Antonio Garcia Pascual
Marco Del Negro
Vincent Van Gogh
Piero Della Francesca [also written as "Piero della Francesca"]
(In case you're curious: The first two are former Presidents of their respective countries; the middle two are actresses; the next two are professional economists; and the final two are painters. Vincent, hopefully, needs no special introduction...)
With all of these names, it would be quite wrong (i) to typeset their names as C. D. Gaulle, M. V. Buren, K. S. Thomas, etc. or (ii) to generate citation call-outs of the form "Negro and Pascual 2015". (Correct: Del Negro and Garcia Pascual 2015.)
To inform BibTeX that it's not dealing with authors (or editors...) with one first name, one middle name (De, Van, Scott, Bonham, etc), and one surname and, instead, with authors/editors that all have one first name and a two-word surname, the names should be entered into the author and editor fields either as (using commas)
De Gaulle, Charles
Van Buren, Martin
Scott Thomas, Kristin
Bonham Carter, Helena
Garcia Pascual, Antonio
Del Negro, Marco
Van Gogh, Vincent
Della Francesca, Piero
or as (using curly braces)
Charles {De Gaulle}
Martin {Van Buren}
Kristin {Scott Thomas}
Helena {Bonham Carter}
Antonio {Garcia Pascual}
Marco {Del Negro}
Vincent {Van Gogh}
Piero {Della Francesca}
I personally prefer the first of the two possibilities.
Turning to the final part of your query: Both Jan A. {Van Mieghem} and Van Mieghem, Jan A. are syntacically correct, in the sense that BibTeX has enough information to figure out what the surname component is. That said, I personally prefer the second form, viz., Van Mieghem, Jan A..
Aside: Note that the case of names containing a two-word surname is quite distinct from the case of names that contain a "von component" and a single-word surname.
I copied plainnat.bst in the working directory as plainnat-swapnames.bst, making the suggested edit to the format.names function.
Then I composed the following minimal example:
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{ghysels2007midas,
title={MIDAS regressions: Further results and new directions},
author={Ghysels, Eric and Sinko, Arthur and Valkanov, Rossen},
journal={Econometric Reviews},
volume={26},
number={1},
pages={53--90},
year={2007},
publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\cite{ghysels2007midas}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat-swapnames}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
Usage of filecontents* is only for making the example self-contained, you can use whatever bib file you want.
Running LaTeX, BibTeX, LaTeX yielded the following result.
Best Answer
I also recommend that you run the program makebst.tex through LaTeX. One of the questions that comes up early is the font to use for the rendering of surnames. Choose the option "small caps" (I know, this isn't exactly what you want, but bear with me). After you're done with the makebst program, open the resulting bst file and search for the command
"\textsc{"inside the function {scaps}; replace the stringtextscwithMakeUppercase, leave everything else unchanged, save the file, and try it out on your bibliography. Happy TeXing!