[Tex/LaTex] Natbib citations do not show the full author name

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I am using the ucthesis class with natbib package. None of the \cite, \citet and \citep commands, show the full author name. They just show the very last part of the author's name in the bib file
Example

@article{bj1996,
    author = {Bjornstad J.F.},
    title = "On the generalization of the likelihood function and likelihood principle",
    year = "1996",
    journal="Journal of the American Statistical Association"
    volume = "91",
    number = "36",
    pages = "791-806"
}

\cite{bj1996}\\
\citep{bj1996}
\citet{bj1996}

prints

J.F. [1996]
[J.F., 1996]
J.F. [1996]

Just the last part of the author's name.
Any idea why?

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You should follow the BibTeX Author formatting explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX#Author_formatting

Specially, you are interested in:

Multiple word last names are distinguished from first and middle names by placing the last names first, then a comma, then the first and middle names

so you should write this as author = {Bjorstad, J. F.}, being Bjorstad the last name, and J. F. the first name.

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Firstly create a dummy bibtex database having filename localbib.bib

\begin{filecontents}{localbib.bib}
    @book{  mykey,
        title = {The Title},
        year = {2013},
        author = {Doe, John},
        address = {Antarctica}
    }

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For the actual document, assuming `localbib.bib' as the database.

%Declare document class
\documentclass{article}

%Use Natbib and declare style options
\usepackage[numbers,square,sort&compress]{natbib}

%State database filename
\def\mybibtexdatabase{localbib} % <----- Change `localbib` here for your actual filename

%Import usebib package and declare the fields that can be used.
\usepackage{usebib}
\newbibfield{author} 
\newbibfield{address} 
\bibinput{\mybibtexdatabase}

%Now write the document    
\begin{document}
    %Example of usebibentry
    Example of field citation is that %
           \usebibentry{mykey}{author} is from \usebibentry{mykey}{address}, %
           the publication was made in \usebibentry{mykey}{year}\citep{mykey}

    %Existing methodology
    \citeauthor{mykey} is the standard name citation.

    %Bibliography
    \bibliographystyle{apacite}
    \bibliography{\mybibtexdatabase}
\end{document}

NOTE: In order to be able to use additional fields (ie for example doi, title, editor etc...) via the \usebibentry{KEY}{FIELD} command, a \newbibfield{FIELD} directive needs to be added to the preamble, just like it has been done ere for author and address.

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