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I have no idea why LaTeX insistently puts "eds." after authors name in the bib file.
I simply use the following bibliography :
@PREAMBLE{
"\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}"
# "\providecommand{\singleletter}[1]{#1}%"
}
@PROCEEDINGS{ref1,
editor = "James Bond and others",
title = "Proceedings of ..e",
address = "Washington, DC",
organization = "",
publisher = "",
note = "",
}
The output is like this:
James Bond et al., eds, Proceedings…
Where does the eds come from??!
Summarised (and expanded) from comments above:
BibTeX uses the aux file written by LaTeX (showing where you want to cite what) together with a bst file (containing stylistic information - such as plain.bst) and a bib file (containing bibliographic information about any document you might want to reference). So a workflow from the command line might look like
latex - to generate the aux filebibtex - to generate a bbl file which contains information about the specific references mentioned in the aux file, formatted correctlylatex - to incorporate the information in the bbl file into your typeset documentlatex again, to fix any cross-referencing problems introduced when all the citations were includedLooking at the aux and bbl files along the way - and, as @Joseph pointed out, the blg file which is BibTeX's log - can help to troubleshoot problems.
For completeness as an answer: on this occasion it apparently turned out that the bibtex step wasn't working due to a typo in the name of the bst file.
You might want to try this slightly modified mapping command
\DeclareSourcemap{
\maps[datatype=bibtex]{
\map{
\step[fieldsource=reprintedfrom, fieldtarget=related, final]
\step[fieldset=relatedtype, fieldvalue={reprintfrom}]
}
}
}
It will turn the non-standard reprintedfrom={something} into related={something} and relatedtype={reprintfrom}.
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test1,
address = {Edinburgh},
title = {I and thou},
publisher = {T. \& {T}. {Clark}},
author = {Buber, Martin},
translator = {Smith, Ronald Gregor},
year = {1937},
origdate = {1923}
}
@incollection{test2,
address = {Cambridge, {MA}},
title = {Deliberation and democratic legitimacy},
booktitle = {Deliberative democracy: {Essays} on reason and politics},
publisher = {MIT {Press}},
author = {Cohen, Joshua},
editor = {Bohman, James and Rehg, William},
year = {1997},
origdate = {1989},
reprintedfrom = {test3},
pages = {67--91},
}
@book{test3,
address = {Oxford},
title = {The {Good} polity: {Normative} analysis of the state},
shorttitle = {The {Good} polity},
publisher = {Blackwell},
editor = {Hamlin, Alan P. and Pettit, Philip},
year = {1989},
pages = {17--34},% that's better than origpages in test2
}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
% Set the values for the bibliography
\usepackage[
style=apa,
backend=biber,
isbn=false,
url=false,
doi=false,
eprint=false,
hyperref=true,
backref=false,
firstinits=false,
]{biblatex}
% Recommended by biblatex
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{xpatch}
% Set language
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{british}{british-apa}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\renewbibmacro*{related:reprintfrom}[1]{%
\entrydata*{#1}{%
\printtext{\mkbibemph{\printfield[apacase]{title}}}%
\setunit{\bibpagespunct}%
\printfield{pages}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\bibstring{byauthor}\addspace
\printnames[apanames][-\value{listtotal}]{editor}%
\ifnameundef{editor}
{}
{\addcomma\addspace
\usebibmacro{apaeditorstrg}{editor}}
\printnames[apanames][-\value{listtotal}]{author}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{date}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{location+publisher}%
\newunit\newblock
\usebibmacro{related}}}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{british}{
reprintfrom = {Reprinted from}
}
\DeclareSourcemap{
\maps[datatype=bibtex]{
\map{
\step[fieldsource=reprintedfrom, fieldtarget=related, final]
\step[fieldset=relatedtype, fieldvalue={reprintfrom}]
}
}
}
\renewbibmacro*{origyear}{%
\ifboolexpr{not test {\iffieldundef{labelyear}} and not test {\iffieldsequal{labelyear}{origyear}} and not test {\iffieldequalstr{relatedtype}{reprintfrom}}}
{\printfield{origyear}}
{}}
\begin{document}
\cite{test1}
\cite{test2}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
A problem though is origpages; the best solution is to add the contents of origpages as pages to the related entry as done above.
But if you cannot, for the life of you, live with changing your bibsource, this redefinition of related:reprintfrom might be for you.
\DeclareFieldFormat{origpages}{\mkpageprefix[bookpagination]{#1}}
\renewbibmacro*{related:reprintfrom}[1]{%
\entrydata*{#1}{%
\printtext{\mkbibemph{\printfield[apacase]{title}}}}%
\setunit{\bibpagespunct}%
\printfield{origpages}%
\entrydata*{#1}{%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\bibstring{byauthor}\addspace
\printnames[apanames][-\value{listtotal}]{editor}%
\ifnameundef{editor}
{}
{\addcomma\addspace
\usebibmacro{apaeditorstrg}{editor}}
\printnames[apanames][-\value{listtotal}]{author}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{date}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{location+publisher}%
\newunit\newblock
\usebibmacro{related}}}
You will have to tell biblatex/Biber to recognise origpages though. This can be done via
\begin{filecontents*}{biblatex-dm.cfg}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=range]{origpages}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields{origpages}
\end{filecontents*}
Another MWE
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{biblatex-dm.cfg}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=range]{origpages}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields{origpages}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test1,
address = {Edinburgh},
title = {I and thou},
publisher = {T. \& {T}. {Clark}},
author = {Buber, Martin},
translator = {Smith, Ronald Gregor},
year = {1937},
origdate = {1923}
}
@incollection{test2,
address = {Cambridge, {MA}},
title = {Deliberation and democratic legitimacy},
booktitle = {Deliberative democracy: {Essays} on reason and politics},
publisher = {MIT {Press}},
author = {Cohen, Joshua},
editor = {Bohman, James and Rehg, William},
year = {1997},
origdate = {1989},
reprintedfrom = {test3},
%related = {test3},
%relatedtype={reprintfrom},
origpages = {17--34},
pages = {67--91}
}
@book{test3,
address = {Oxford},
title = {The {Good} polity: {Normative} analysis of the state},
shorttitle = {The {Good} polity},
publisher = {Blackwell},
editor = {Hamlin, Alan P. and Pettit, Philip},
year = {1989}
}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
% Set the values for the bibliography
\usepackage[
style=apa,
backend=biber,
isbn=false,
url=false,
doi=false,
eprint=false,
hyperref=true,
backref=false,
firstinits=false,
]{biblatex}
% Recommended by biblatex
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{xpatch}
% Set language
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{british}{british-apa}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\DeclareFieldFormat{origpages}{\mkpageprefix[bookpagination]{#1}}
\renewbibmacro*{related:reprintfrom}[1]{%
\entrydata*{#1}{%
\printtext{\mkbibemph{\printfield[apacase]{title}}}}%
\setunit{\bibpagespunct}%
\printfield{origpages}%
\entrydata*{#1}{%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\bibstring{byauthor}\addspace
\printnames[apanames][-\value{listtotal}]{editor}%
\ifnameundef{editor}
{}
{\addcomma\addspace
\usebibmacro{apaeditorstrg}{editor}}
\printnames[apanames][-\value{listtotal}]{author}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{date}%
\setunit{\addcomma\addspace}%
\usebibmacro{location+publisher}%
\newunit\newblock
\usebibmacro{related}}}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{british}{
reprintfrom = {Reprinted from}
}
\DeclareSourcemap{
\maps[datatype=bibtex]{
\map{
\step[fieldsource=reprintedfrom, fieldtarget=related, final]
\step[fieldset=relatedtype, fieldvalue={reprintfrom}]
}
}
}
\renewbibmacro*{origyear}{%
\ifboolexpr{not test {\iffieldundef{labelyear}} and not test {\iffieldsequal{labelyear}{origyear}} and not test {\iffieldequalstr{relatedtype}{reprintfrom}}}
{\printfield{origyear}}
{}}
\begin{document}
\cite{test1}
\cite{test2}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
To get rid of the origyear information at the end of a reprint, we modify the macro to include a test for reprinted entries (it checks if relatedtype is set to reprintfrom; the mapping takes care of that); the information is skipped if it is a reprint.
\renewbibmacro*{origyear}{%
\ifboolexpr{not test {\iffieldundef{labelyear}} and not test {\iffieldsequal{labelyear}{origyear}} and not test {\iffieldequalstr{relatedtype}{reprintfrom}}}
{\printfield{origyear}}
{}}
Both MWEs yield
Best Answer
Context
Proceedings are a collection of many conference papers and as such have many individual authors. The persons that take the individual articles and make them into proceedings are the editors. To distinguish the roles of authors and editors, the later are typically emphasized with (eds) or a variation thereof.
Bibtex entry
The proceedings itself do not have an author, only the contained individual articles have that. If you are referring to an article within the proceedings, you have to use the bibtex entry type
@inproceedings. If you want to cite the whole proceeding the "eds" should stay there. For bibtex entry types see wikipediaForcing Bibtex to Comply
Try other bibtex entry types that fit your needs. For instance
@mischas authors, title, and a generic "howpublished" in which you can put all the rest. If this fails, or if you want to change the format for all entries of one type, you have to change or edit the bibliography style. They reside in .bst files (see this for your case)