Author name confusion

[Joeran]

I use citation style "Harvard Reference format 1 (author-date)"

1. Insert reference 'McNee2006' (and insert a bibliography)
2. This text should appear
3. Now, insert the reference with the bibtex key 'McNee2006a'
4. This text should appear

The strange thing is that the first reference originally was called "(McNee et al. 2006)" After adding the second reference, both are called "(Sean M. McNee et al. 2006)". This is strange, because a) two different references should not have the same string like (McNee et al. 2006) but instead (McNee et al. 2006a) and (McNee et al. 2006b). Second, the BibTeX entry for the first reference does not even contain the information that the author's first name is "Sean",

@INPROCEEDINGS{McNee2006,
  author = {{M}c{N}ee, {S}.{M}. and {K}apoor, {N}. and {K}onstan, {J}.{A}.},

still the reference is changed to (_Sean_ M. McNee et al. 2006)

Somehow the data of the two references must be mixed.

[Joeran]

I sent you the BibTeX file by email. Subject of the email "Strange bug in Docear4Word (Confusing author names)"

[simmotech]

Hi Joeran

Unfortunately, due to rebuilding my PC completely (no old Visual Studio and no old Word anymore) and being at a crucial point in development of my main project, I am unable to even load the source code to see what is going on.

It is going to be a while before I can look at this and I will have to try running everything in a Virtual Machine because I don’t want to install the old versions any more.

Having a quick look at the screen shots though:

1) The reference texts are not actually identical – the second one doesn’t have a period after the M initial. This would be enough for citeproc to believe they are unique and not add a suffix.

2) I don’t know the full contents of the bibtext file, but your first screenshot shows the name “Sean” in the Authors column for both entries so that info must actually be there.

Cheers

Simon

From: Joeran [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: 17 July 2014 15:16 To: Docear/Docear4Word Subject: [Docear4Word] Author name confusion (#32)

I use

1. Insert reference 'McNee2006' (and insert a bibliography) https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2410381/3613909/1b77ba80-0dbc-11e4-8c18-28830134064f.png
2. This text should appear https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2410381/3613914/2f6ebab6-0dbc-11e4-9bc9-634372aac14c.png
3. Now, insert the reference with the bibtex key 'McNee2006a' https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2410381/3613926/49429ffc-0dbc-11e4-8b49-4737c617b1bb.png
4. This text should appear https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2410381/3613933/574e04ce-0dbc-11e4-891a-d4cb5577758f.png

The strange thing is that the first reference originally was called "(McNee et al. 2006)" After adding the second reference, both are called "(Sean M. McNee et al. 2006)". This is strange, because a) two different references should not have the same string like (McNee et al. 2006) but instead (McNee et al. 2006a) and (McNee et al. 2006b). Second, the BibTeX entry for the first reference does not even contain the information that the author's first name is "Sean",

@INPROCEEDINGS{McNee2006, author = {{M}c{N}ee, {S}.{M}. and {K}apoor, {N}. and {K}onstan, {J}.{A}.},

still the reference is changed to (Sean M. McNee et al. 2006)

Somehow the data of the two references must be mixed.

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[Joeran]

i found the problem: i have two entries in my bibtex file that have the key "mcnee2006"

interestingly, docear4word is showing only one of the two. anyway, i will close this ticket (users should take care that there are only unique bibtex keys)