[texhax] BibTeX author names

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I produced a style file to meet the needs of a journal submission.  I
> selected:
> 
> Surname + pure initials (Smith JF)
> 
> for formatting author names in the list of references.  The 
> entries in my
> *.bib files have the names as "Smith, J.F.".  However, when 
> running bibtex
> with this style file produces "Smith J"; i.e. the second initial is
> ignored.  Going through the style file, especially the format.names
> function, it's not clear to me what should be tweaked to produce the
> complete name abbreviation ("Smith JF").  I would appreciate any
> suggestions on how to hack this.

You don't need to hack the bst, rather you should "correct" your bib: the
correct form for names is "Smith, J. F."; that is, with a space between the
initials, just as there would be if you wrote the names out full.  BibTeX
reads J.F. as just one name and so returns J.

Cheers, Phil