[Tex/LaTex] Extract authors name from a bibtex entry

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I have a bibtex list of references and i would like to get the authors' names from a specific entry in my .bib file. Is there a command for that?

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You could use the natbib package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{docuemnt}

\citeauthor{smith90}

\bibliography{bibliography.bib}
\end{document}

See here: http://merkel.zoneo.net/Latex/natbib.php

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The cause of the problem is a faulty instruction in the bst file. Make a copy of fom.bst and edit the copy as follows:

in the function format.names.author, find the string
```
"{vv}{ll, }{f.}"
```
and replace it with
```
"{vv~}{ll}{, f.}"
```
That way, a comma will be inserted after the last-name component only if the author's name contains a first-name component as well.

Note that, in addition to moving the location of the comma to the first-name component of the (full) name, I also recommend making the space between the von and last-name components non-breakable.
Repeat this edit for the second occurrence of the string "{vv}{ll, }{f.}" in the function format.names.author and for the two occurrences of this string in the function format.name.editors.
Save the modified bst file, update you TeX distribution's filename database if the new bst file isn't placed in the same directory as your main .tex file, and recompile your document from scratch.

Addendum: I can't help but voice my surprise and dismay over the fact that the fom bibliography style doesn't provide a mechanism for dealing with authors' "junior" name components (which can be Sr., Jr., III, the Elder, the Younger, and so on). You may luck out, in the sense that your bibliographic entries don't contain authors whose names contain such "junior" components. Nevertheless, it seems to be quite unsatisfactory for a bibliography style not to provide such a mechanism at all.

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