[Tex/LaTex] Series Editor for InCollection

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I need a "series editor" field to finish my record. I am using a @InCollection in my BibTeX file.

Using the "note" field the name of the editor is put at the end of the record and I prefer the conventional presentation (editor before title).

I use the plain bibliography style.

I chose an option. I will use the note field. The reason for this is presented in the code as follows.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}       

\bibliographystyle{plain}

\section{Simple Text}

This is a MWE (Minimal Working Example) to show my problem. I want to cite a chapter from a book. Booktitle and chapters title are diferent, but have the same authors. So, I thought that this was the case for a `@InCollection` record in my BibTeXs file. Here is my problematic reference presented in two forms. In `\cite{NedjahAndMourelle2014c}`, I have included the series editor inside the series field. His name is presented in italic. And the other form, `\cite{NedjahAndMourelle2014d}`, where I've opted to use the note field. I am using the plain bibliographystile. I've decided to use the note field based on `\cite[p.765]{MittelbachEtAl2004}: \textit{note: any additional information that can help the reader}`.

\bibliography{myehw}

\end{document}

This is the BibTeX file:

@book{MittelbachEtAl2004,
  author = {Mittelbach, F and Goosens, M. and Braams, J. and Carlisle, D. and Rowley, C.},
  title = {The \LaTeX Companion},
  edition = {2\textsuperscript{nd}},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  year = {2004}
}

@INCOLLECTION{NedjahAndMourelle2014c,
  author = {Nedjah, N. and Mourelle, L.M},
  title = {A Reconfigurable Hardware for Particle Swarm Optimization},
  booktitle = {Hardware for soft computing and soft computing for hardware},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2014},
  volume = {529},
  series = {J. Kacprzyk, series editor, Studies in Computacional Intelligence},
  chapter = {3},
  pages = {28-42},
  address = {Cham}
}

@INCOLLECTION{NedjahAndMourelle2014d,
  author = {Nedjah, N. and Mourelle, L.M},
  title = {A Reconfigurable Hardware for Artificial Neural Neworks},
  booktitle = {Hardware for soft computing and soft computing for hardware},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2014},
  volume = {529},
  series = {Studies in Computacional Intelligence},
  chapter = {5},
  pages = {28-42},
  address = {Cham},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-03110-1},
  note = {J. Kacprzyk, series editor}
}

If anyone of you folks can give some other ideas/decisions they are welcome.

Best Answer

I wouldn't bother trying to hack the file plain.bst to (a) define a new field called (say) serieseditor, (b) define a function called (say) format.serieseditor, and (c) edit the functions incollection, inbook and book (and probably a few more) to insert the instruction format.serieseditor. (You didn't even indicate how, precisely, the name(s) of the series editor(s) should be formattted.) Instead, I'd append that information to the series field as follows:

series={Studies in Computational Intelligence \emph{(Janusz Kacprzyk, Series Editor)}},

The LaTeX instruction \emph is nested: since the contents of series are typeset using \emph, the \emph around (Janusz Kacprzyk, Series Editor) serves to typeset the argument in an upright font shape. (The contents of the bib entry below are as given at Springer's website.)

A final remark: I think you didn't get the surname of the entry's second author quite right -- it should be de Macedo Mourelle, not just "Mourelle". When in doubt, spend more time and effort on getting the names of all authors absolutely right rather than on providing information about series editors.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{zzz.bib}
@incollection{nedjah-demacedomourelle:2014,
  year={2014},
  author={Nedjah, Nadia and de Macedo Mourelle, Luiza},
  title={A Reconfigurable Hardware for Artificial Neural Networks},
  booktitle={Hardware for Soft Computing and Soft Computing  for Hardware},
  series={Studies in Computational Intelligence \emph{(Janusz Kacprzyk, Series Editor)}},
  volume={529},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-319-03110-1_5},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03110-1_5},
  isbn={978-3-319-03109-5},
  publisher={Springer International Publishing},
  chapter = 5,
  pages={59-69},
}
\end{filecontents}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\begin{document}       
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{zzz}
\end{document}
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