I am citing "The Theory of Sound" by John William Strutt (more commonly known as Baron Rayleigh). How should his name appear in the author field in BibTeX? Currently I have:
@book{Ray94,
title = "The Theory of Sound",
author = "John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh",
year = 1894,
publisher = "Dover"
}
It is necessary to include his title as most people know him simply as Rayleigh.
Although not critical, if I were to use the alpha style, how would I make this entry appear as [Ray94]?
Best Answer
Typically such names are listed with the real name (i.e. in this case, Strutt). With an alphabetic style, however, you can have the best of both worlds, I suppose, by using the commonly known name as the citation label. Here's how to do this in
biblatex
. Doing it innatbib
is probably not possible without a lot of work.The
biblatex
package has a fieldnameaddon
which can be used to add extra material to a name. It also has ashortauthor
field, which can be used to override the regular citation label based on the author. We use both of these fields to get the desired result: