On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

I'm arranging the bibliography of my math textbook alphabetial by author and it mostly works, but a couple entries are tricky. For example:

@Book{Census:1992, author = {US Bureau of the Census}, title = {Statistical Abstracts of the United States: 1992}, publisher = {Government Printing Office}, year = 1992, address = {Washington, DC}, edition = {112th}}

Using the settings \setupbibtex[database=../project, sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=num, sorttype=bbl] it turns into this entry in the .bbl file:

\startpublication[k=Census:1992,t=book, a={{of~the Census}},y=1992, n=7,s=otC92] \author[]{US~Bureau}[U.~B.]{of~the}{Census} \pubyear{1992} \title{Statistical Abstracts of the United States: 1992} \city{Washington, DC} \pubname{Government Printing Office} \edition{112th} \stoppublication

I tried inserting a key={US Census} line in the bibtex entry, but the key seems to be ignored if there's already an author key (based on a moderately long stare at the cont-au.bst file).

How could I trick bibtex into believing that the author's last name is "US", so that the entry would be placed with the "U" entries?

Try author={{US Bureau of the Census}} or author={U{S Bureau of the Census}} Aditya