[Tex/LaTex] Bibtex Won’t Show the Author

bibliographiesbibtex

My code goes like this:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{titlesec}


\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\filcenter\normalfont\bfseries}
{\MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename}\ \thechapter}
{0pt}
{}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{-24pt}{24pt}
\titleformat{\section}
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesection}{12pt}{}

\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{parskip}
\setlength{\parindent}{.5in}

\usepackage{setspace}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.75} 

\usepackage[square]{natbib}

\begin{document}
\include{CHAPTERS/Chapter1}


\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{2}
\end{document}

chapter 1.tex:

\chapter{Introduction}
\section{section}
The package offers two hooks, \\UrlLeft and \\UrlRight, that by default do
Appending material at left or right\cite{ruth}
nothing but can be redefined to typeset material at the left or right of text. The
material is typeset in the same fashion as the\cite{thomas} text. For example, spaces are ignored
unless one uses \ or specifies obeyspaces as an option. If \cite{jac}the commands are
redefined at the top level, they act on every \\url-like command. See Example 3-1-
34 on the next page for a possibility to restrict their scope.

and my .bib file code is this:

@Book{cetin,
ALTauthor = {Cetin Kurt and Jürgen Bittner},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {"Sodium Hydroxide" Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry},
publisher = {Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH \& Co.},
year = {2006},
OPTkey = {•},
OPTvolume = {•},
OPTnumber = {•},
OPTseries = {•},
OPTaddress = {•},
OPTedition = {7},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}
@Book{thomas,
ALTauthor = {Thomas F. O'Brien and Tilak V. Bommaraju and Fumio Hine},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {Handbook of Chlor-Alkali Technology Volume I: Fundamentals},
publisher = {Springer Science+Business Media Inc.},
year = {2005},
OPTkey = {•},
OPTvolume = {•},
OPTnumber = {•},
OPTseries = {•},
OPTaddress = {233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013,
USA},
OPTedition = {•},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}
@Book{ruth,
ALTauthor = {Ruth Stinger and Paul  Johnstonand},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {Chlorine and the Environment-An Overview of the Chlorine Industry},
publisher = {Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht},
year = {2001},
OPTkey = {•},
OPTvolume = {•},
OPTnumber = {•},
OPTseries = {•},
OPTaddress = {•},
OPTedition = {•},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}
@Article{jac,
author = {Jacqueline Fauvarque},
title = {The Chlorine Industry},
journal = {Pure and Applied Chemistry},
year = {1996},
OPTkey = {•},
OPTvolume = {•},
OPTnumber = {•},
OPTpages = {•},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}
@Misc{akzo:2009:Misc,
OPTkey = {•},
OPTauthor = {AkzoNobel},
OPTtitle = {•},
OPThowpublished = {https://www.akzonobel.com/ic/products/chlorine/},
OPTmonth = {•},
OPTyear = {•},
OPTnote = {•},
OPTannote = {•}
}

the unexpected output is this:

enter image description here

please help me…

Best Answer

Remove the ALT prefixes from author and editor fields, i.e., change ALTauthor to author and ALTeditor to editor.

Do this only for fields whose values are not {•}, of course, or you'll get some bitter complaints from BibTeX...

By the way, I think the title of the cetin entry should start with

{``Sodium Hydroxide'' Ullmann's...

rather than with

{"Sodium Hydroxide" Ullmann's

For sure, use whatever quotes are appropriate for the main language of your document -- just don't use "dumb quotes".

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