Tuesday 10 July 2012

Multiple Authors in the Author Field


One thing I have noticed that catches people out is entering multiple authors into the author field.

If you create a new reference (References | New Reference on the menu), you can enter the authors into the Author field. It is natural to do this in a continuous fashion:


Unfortunately, this does not render properly in the output, as can be seen from the preview pane:


The solution to this is to split the separate authors onto separate lines in the author field.


This now outputs correctly:

  
The same is also true of the Editor field.