improvement of bibtex importation

ther · January 21, 2011

For some references an author may not exist as an individual name (Firstname, Surname) but as an institution (e.g. 'Acme Manufacturing Co Ltd') in which case the bibtex entry would be

...author="{Acme Manufacturing Co Ltd}"

However, the zotero import ignores the curl bracket (which latex recognises) and so in zotero the result of an import is:

...author1=Manufacturing Acme...
...author2=Ltd Co...

Can this import behaviour be changed by the (non-programmer) user or must users wait for zotero programmers to make this change?

noksagt · January 22, 2011

However, the zotero import ignores the curl bracket (which latex recognises) and so in zotero the result of an import is:

...author1=Manufacturing Acme...
...author2=Ltd Co...

I can't replicate this.

@article{acme_manufacturing_co_ltd_test_2011,
	title = "test",
	author = "{Acme Manufacturing Co Ltd}",
	year = "2011",
}

imports with the single author "Ltd, Acme Manufacturing Co" (a single field author would be ideal here, but it is easy to change it & I don't know if there is a good way for zotero to know when to use a single field in this particular case).

Please give examples in BibTeX that lead to two authors being (mis-)assigned.