russella
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11 years ago Hi Marco, It looks to me as though this is a bug in bibtex/plain, see:
In particular, I think the year data should always go with the publisher; however, for inproceedings, it seems that location should not (which is irritating), since this is supposed to be the location of the conference...argh.
Dear Marco,
It seems that the way that bibtex/plain handles publisher data in @inproceedings and @incollection entries is inconsistent. Specifically, in @inproceedings, it keeps all the publisher data together, including address and year--so far, so good. But @incollection is very odd: if there is no address, the publisher and year are together after a period; if there IS an address, the year and the address are placed with the previous publication data. My guess is that this is a bug in the plain.bst. Consider the following four entries:
@incollection{kohayakawa2-a, author={Y. Kohayakawa}, title={{Szemer\'{e}di's} regularity lemma for sparse graphs}, booktitle={Foundations of Computational Mathematics}, editor={F. Cucker and M. Shub}, pages={216--230}, publisher={Springer}, year={1997} }
@incollection{kohayakawa2-b, author={Y. Kohayakawa}, title={{Szemer\'{e}di's} regularity lemma for sparse graphs}, booktitle={Foundations of Computational Mathematics}, editor={F. Cucker and M. Shub}, pages={216--230}, address={Berlin}, publisher={Springer}, year={1997} }
@inproceedings{kasher/approx-a, author = {Kasher, Roy and Kempe, Julia}, title = {Two-source extractors secure against quantum adversaries}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Approximation, and the 14th International conference on Randomization, and combinatorial optimization: algorithms and techniques}, series = {APPROX/RANDOM'10}, year = {2010}, venue = {Barcelona, Spain}, pages = {656--669}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}}
@inproceedings{kasher/approx-b, author = {Kasher, Roy and Kempe, Julia}, title = {Two-source extractors secure against quantum adversaries}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Approximation, and the 14th International conference on Randomization, and combinatorial optimization: algorithms and techniques}, series = {APPROX/RANDOM'10}, year = {2010}, venue = {Barcelona, Spain}, pages = {656--669}, publisher = {Springer} }
The only difference between the "-a" and "-b" entries of these is that the "-b" entry has a publisher address, while the "-a" entry does not. Now look at the way that bibtex/plain typesets these:
At the moment, biblatex/trad-plain does the right thing for @incollection (and has exactly the same behavior as plain). On the other hand, biblatex/trad-plain doesn't agree with bibltex/plain on @incollection.
In my opinion, the best thing to do would be to layout publisher data in @inproceedings in exactly the same way that you do for @incollection, even though this would be a little inconsistent with bibtex/plain (which seems to have some inconsistencies itself.)