On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 13:13:52 +0200
Henning Hraban Ramm
Consider: @Book {rattenhka, author = "Bettina von Arnim and Gisela von Arnim", title = "Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns", … }
The authors are usually given as “Bettina and Gisela von Arnim” (mother and daughter; similar “Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm” as brothers or “Bettina and Achim von Arnim” as a couple) – is there a good solution for related authors?
Multiple authors should be treated as multiple authors. That they are related is not and should not be a consideration in citing works. At least this is the practice that I know of for academic texts. You can cheat and try to define one author with a combined first name, like author={Eames, Ray & Earl}, but I don't know how that parses as I have never tried it; "and" is a reserved token used to define multiple authors. I wouldn't do it as I can think of many examples (Bjaer & Bjaer) where we give both credit, individually. Alan