[Tex/LaTex] Names with Apostrophes in Bibtex

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I am putting together a paper, and an author in the citations has a name with an apostrophe. When I compile the pdf, the apostrophe is dropped, rendering the name from D'Urso to DUrso. How do I force BibTex to respect the apostrophe?

@article{HPdura,
    author = "B D’Urso",
    title = "title",
    year = "year",
    journal = "Journal",
    volume = "volume", 
    Pages  = "pages",
}

which gives in the .BBL

\bibitem{HPdura}
 B.~D’Urso, Title, Journal Volume (year) pages.

which gives in the PDF

B. DUrso, title, Journal volume (year) pages.

Best Answer

Use a single quote: ', rather than an apostrophe: ’

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A fast solution could be to add

note={reprinted in LewisPP1, pages 26--46}

in your article entry. With a little pretty printing you get:

@article{LewisCTQML,
  Author        = {David Lewis},
  Date-Modified = {2007-03-24 18:24:14 -0400},
  Journal       = {Journal of Philosophy},
  Pages         = {113--26},
  Reprintedin   = {LewisPP1},
  Reprintpages  = {26--46},
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I suggest you proceed as follows:

Open your modified copy of apalike.bst in a text editor. (The program you use to edit your tex files will do fine.)
Immediately after the function output.check, add the following 3 lines of code:
```
FUNCTION {add.blank}
{  " " * before.all 'output.state :=
}
```

In the article function, locate the line that says

   { journal emphasize "journal" output.check

Immediately after this line (and hence immediately before the line that says format.vol.num.pages output), insert a new line with following text:
```
     add.blank
```
Save the bst file
Rerun LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX once more to recreate the formatted bibliography

Happy BibTeXing!

Addendum to address the OP's follow-up question, about how to handle an entry which is "In press", i.e., which hasn't been published yet and for which the volume, number, and pages fields are not yet available.

I believe you should put the "In Press" information in the year field, not the note field. If the article hasn't been published yet, it's better to write "In press" in the year field; before you know it, the publication year might slip from 2018 to 2019 or even 2020... Optional: Use a \noopsort directive to help BibTeX with figuring out how to sort the entry. And, place an \unskip directive in the entry's volume field to undo the output of the add.blank directive.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@preamble { "\providecommand\noopsort[1]{}" }
@Article{Author:InPress,
  Title     = {Thoughts},
  Author    = {Adrian A. Author},
  Journal   = {Journal of Bib\TeX{}ing},
  Year      = {\noopsort{2019}In Press},
  volume    = {\unskip},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{apalike-nocomma} % modified form of 'apalike.bst'
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}

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