Superfluous comma with two-author publications

[tchufnagel]

Publications with two authors produce bibliography entries with a comma after the first author's name, for example "A. Bonnie, and D. Clyde ... " instead of "A. Bonnie and D. Clyde ..." MWE source files below, with PDF output attached. mwe_comma_bug.pdf

MWE LaTeX file: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[backend=biber,style=phys]{biblatex} \addbibresource{mwe.bib}

\begin{document}

This is a test~\cite{OlsonMTA:76}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

MWE bib file: @article{OlsonMTA:76, Author = {Olson, G B and Cohen, M}, Journal = {Metallurgical Transactions A}, Number = {11}, Pages = {1897--1904}, Title = {A general mechanism of martensitic nucleation}, Volume = {7}, Year = {1976}}

[josephwright]

This is controlled by \finalandcomma so is easy to change. Do you know what the APS do here: both forms are possible.

[tchufnagel]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply and the pointer to \finalandcomma, which I had not realized was available. But I still think there's a bug in biblatex-phys. I've attached two .tex files, one using style=numeric and one using style=phys. The numeric example omits the comma after the first author, but the phys example does not; the codes are identical other than changing the style invocation.

Best,

Todd Hufnagel

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Todd Hufnagel Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Johns Hopkins University

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This is controlled by \finalandcomma so is easy to change. Do you know what the APS do here: both forms are possible.

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[josephwright]

Could you add \listfiles to your input and post the File list you get in your .log file here? I'm not seeing the issue with and up-to-date system.

[tchufnagel]

File List article.cls 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class size12.clo 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option) babel.sty 2016/04/23 3.9r The Babel package english.ldf 2012/08/20 v3.3p English support from the babel system biblatex.sty 2016/05/14 v3.4 programmable bibliographies (PK/JW/AB) iftex.sty 2013/04/04 v0.2 Provides if(tex) conditional for PDFTeX, XeTeX, and LuaTeX pdftexcmds.sty 2016/05/10 v0.21 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO) infwarerr.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO) ifluatex.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO) ltxcmds.sty 2016/05/16 v1.23 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO) ifpdf.sty 2016/05/14 v3.1 Provides the ifpdf switch etoolbox.sty 2015/08/02 v2.2a e-TeX tools for LaTeX (JAW) keyval.sty 2014/10/28 v1.15 key=value parser (DPC) kvoptions.sty 2016/05/16 v3.12 Key value format for package options (HO) kvsetkeys.sty 2016/05/16 v1.17 Key value parser (HO) etexcmds.sty 2016/05/16 v1.6 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO) logreq.sty 2010/08/04 v1.0 xml request logger logreq.def 2010/08/04 v1.0 logreq spec v1.0 ifthen.sty 2014/09/29 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC) url.sty 2013/09/16 ver 3.4 Verb mode for urls, etc. xstring.sty 2013/10/13 v1.7c String manipulations (C Tellechea) blx-dm.def phys.dbx biblatex-dm.cfg blx-compat.def 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex compatibility (PK/JW/AB) biblatex.def 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex compatibility (PK/JW/AB) standard.bbx 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex bibliography style (PK/JW/AB) numeric.bbx 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex bibliography style (PK/JW/AB) numeric-comp.bbx 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex bibliography style (PK/JW/AB) phys.bbx 2016/03/13 v1.0a biblatex bibliography style numeric-comp.cbx 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex citation style (PK/JW/AB) phys.cbx 2016/03/13 v1.0a biblatex citation style biblatex.cfg
english.lbx 2016/05/14 v3.4 biblatex localization (PK/JW/AB) mwe_comma_bug_phys.bbl

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[josephwright]

Several of your files, most notably biblatex itself and the phys style, are out-of-date: the first step is to update your system.

[tchufnagel]

Thanks for the suggestion; that helped.

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Todd Hufnagel Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Johns Hopkins University

On Jun 4, 2017, at 11:03 PM, Joseph Wright notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

Several of your files, most notably biblatex itself and the phys style, are out-of-date: the first step is to update your system.

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