Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Dear Taco,

I need a last-name only option for a few but not all authors, such that no comma comes after the last name; rather it goes straight to the year e.g., it appears in the actual bibliography as

============================================== McDermott (1976). The Theology of Shaykh Mufid ==============================================

Right now I get (with spurious comma)

============================================== McDermott, (1976). The Theology of Shaykh Mufid ==============================================

Sometime authors give me bib's where the first name of the author is unknown...

This is bit of a blind gamble, but you can try this definition instead of the default one: % #1 = firstname, #2 = von, #3 = surname, #4 = inits, #5 = junior \def\invertedshortauthor#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#2}{#2 }% #3% \bibdoif{#5}{ #5}% \bibdoif{#4}{, #4\unskip}}% Cheers, Taco

Best Idris

============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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