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How to initial an author's name that contains nobiliary particles and articles
When an author's name contains something like "van der", "de la", etc, and you wish to initial the author's first/middle names (all but surname) in a reference, how do you deal ...
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Citing own results which were obtained under former name
I'm giving a talk about results I obtained in my MSc thesis, some time after which I changed my last name. The result will be published under my former name. How should I state it during the talk? I ...
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Abbreviating first names in the bibliography
In my bibliography I use the names of the authors as they are given in the publication. Usually this will be the last name, the first name not abbreviated and second names abbreviated. However, I now ...
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Position of infixes of names (e.g. “van”) in bibliographies
When I create a bibliography, do infixes of names always go with the surname as follows?
Van de Sompel, Herbert
van Leeuwen, Theo
The examples come from bibliographies I have within my collection ...
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Should I cite author names as they appear in the journal or as I know them to be complete?
Since I've been using Mendeley to manage and extract metadata from my PDFs, I've come to notice that authors are sometimes denoted with all their initials and sometimes with just one. I assume this ...
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How should 'van'-names be ordered in a bibliography?
How would names with 'van', written in the Dutch style - e.g. van Beukering, J., be ordered in a bibliography?
Do we count the 'van' element so that e.g. van Beukering, J. would be some point after ...
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