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  • That works perfectly on the dataset that I've got available to me at the moment (the latest draft of an article I'm working on).
  • Aha. Found a bug (may be the reason you haven't done this before). I can't find the code that wraps things in braces, but the author name "Godfrey-Smith, Peter" gets turned into "{Godfrey-Smith,} Peter", which makes BibTeX ignore the comma. W…
  • Given that this change covers basically every case that Zotero currently lets you input, I certainly don't see why we wouldn't! (Of course, I'm a bit biased here, as it's making trouble for my library.) (I don't, on a related note, have a good…
  • Ahh, now there's a distinction BibTeX doesn't have -- between "dropping" and "non-dropping" particles. For BibTeX, all the "von part" (which is "de, de la, van, von, van der, von der, St", and a few other things) are "non-dropping" in the CSL sense…
  • Hmm, ok, I didn't know that was the current recommended practice. (I've always considered the "de/van/von/van der/etc" part of the last name...) Say you had a worst case scenario name, "ll, ss, ff, vv" ("Johnland, Sr., John, de"). BibTeX would se…
  • The one thing that *can* go wrong with that format, it seems to me, is suffixes -- you'd need to specify John van Doe Jr. as "van Doe, Jr." for last, and "John" for first. But I'd think anybody who's really worried about quality BibTeX export could…