In my .bib
file, I have two entries with exactly the same author names:
@article{Seshadrinathan2010A-Subjective-St,
Author = {K. Seshadrinathan and R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik and L. K. Cormack},
....
@article{Seshadrinathan2009Study-of-Subjec,
Author = {K. Seshadrinathan and R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik and L. K. Cormack},
....
When cited after each other, and typeset with the IEEEtran
bibliography style, the .bbl
file reads:
\bibitem{Seshadrinathan2010A-Subjective-St}
K.~Seshadrinathan, R.~Soundararajan, A.~C. Bovik, and L.~K. Cormack, ``A
subjective study to evaluate video quality assessment algorithms,''
\emph{SPIE Proceedings Human Vision and Electronic Imaging}, 2010.
\bibitem{Seshadrinathan2009Study-of-Subjec}
------, ``Study of subjective and objective quality assessment of video,''
\emph{IEEE Transactions on Image Processing}, 2009.
As you can see, the author names have been replaced with ------
. It looks like this in the final PDF:
Is this normal behavior?
Best Answer
The behavior mentioned is the default using
IEEEtran.bst
style. To change it, you can define aIEEEtranBSTCTL
entry in your bib database and change the default value forCTLdash_repeated_names
. So, in this case, your entry should look like this:Then in the body of your
.tex
file you have to activate the change by usingExample (thanks to Marco):