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Working with the following abridged line in a BibTeX entry:
author = {J. Pe\~{n}a}
For some reason results in a BibTeX compilation to:
J.~P. {n}a
With a period and a space appearing and the tilde diacritic and the letter e vanishing. I can fix this by wrapping the surname in braces, but am mystified as to why this happens in the first place. Is this expected behaviour?
Thanks for any explanation anyone can offer.
That's the default behavior for IEEETran. If you don't like it, without loosing the IEEETran specifications, you have to add the following entry in your .bib file:
@IEEEtranBSTCTL{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol,
CTLdash_repeated_names = "no"
}
MWE
\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@IEEEtranBSTCTL{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol,
CTLdash_repeated_names = "no"
}
@article{art1,
author={An Author},
title={Journal article},
year=2000,
journal={Journal of nothingness},
volume=2,
pages={1-2}
}
@article{art2,
author={An Author},
title={Another journal article},
year=2001,
journal={Journal of nothingness},
volume=2,
pages={1-2}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
Output
Best Answer
Use
Pe{\~{n}}aor simplyPe{\~n}ainstead.See http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bibaccent
This is BibTeX's restriction, which is explained in BibTeX's manual
btxdoc. Maybe one should check the source code of BibTeX for detailed explanation. However, I think this is not very hard to understand --- In BibTeX, one can useHow about missing braces? It will be more difficult to write the program for lexical analysis, if the braces can be omitted.