Bug with bibtex import

Guillaume Larocque · March 10, 2011

Hi, I have been importing a bunch of bibtex bibliographies (from Scopus) to Zotero and I just noticed that only the first author of each reference is imported to the Zotero library, although they are clearly listed in the bibtex file. Is this a bug?

Thank you,

G

adamsmith · March 10, 2011

please post one of those bibtex items here.

Guillaume Larocque · March 10, 2011

Here:

@ARTICLE{Staddon2010543,
author={Staddon, P., Lindo, Z., Crittenden, P.D., Gilbert, F., Gonzalez, A.},
title={Connectivity, non-random extinction and ecosystem function in experimental metacommunities},
journal={Ecology Letters},
year={2010},
volume={13},
number={5},
pages={543-552},
note={cited By (since 1996) 2},
url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77953541036&partnerID=40&md5=099e4efcc286bcba061e18b0dad66e7f},
document_type={Letter},
source={Scopus},
}

adamsmith · March 10, 2011

in my (somewhat limited) understanding of BibTex, multiple authors should always be separated by "and" not by a comma. This would seem to be a Scopus issue.
The Wikipedia entry is actually explicit about this

Multiple authors should be separated with an and, not with commas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX#Author_formatting

ajlyon · March 11, 2011

To confirm, BibTeX.js:1558: var names = value.split(/ and /i); // now case insensitive
Commas are already used for name suffixes and between first and last name.