Better BibTex Name Outputting

Currently Zotero does not export multi-word last names correctly in BibTex, which makes manual corrections necessary for any BibTex files. For example, the last names "Le Blanc" and "Marnard Smith" are translated as "Blanc, L." and "Smith, M." by Latex.

Any easy way to fix this would be for Zotero to output names as:

author={lastname, firstname}

instead of:

author={firstname lastname}

For example, instead of:

author = {John Maynard Smith and George R. Price}

The bibTex document should read:

author = {Maynard Smith, John and Price, George R.}
  • I second this suggestion, and have one of my own:
    Special characteres like ä (German Umlaut-a) read in TeX \"{a}
    The case is similar for accents etc.
    Zotero recognizes these when importing from BibTeX, but does not translate them back when exporting to BibTeX (rather, ä is put). I would appreciate it if it did.
    Regards
  • patpfleizt: Please post separate issues to separate threads. Enable the export charset option in the Export pane of the preferences and select something other than UTF-8 and you'll get the TeX representations.
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