Change ieetr bibliography style to last name first

Question

I'm using the ieeetr bibliography style for my references and I'm getting initials then last name, how would I change this to last name first?

Here is what it looks like at the moment:

[1] X. Chen, H. Niu, D. Li, and Y. Li, “Intrinsic correlation between hardness and elasticity in polycrystalline materials and bulk metallic glasses,” arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4063, (2011).

and this is what I'd like to have:

[1] Chen X., Niu H., Li D., and Li Y., “Intrinsic correlation between hardness and elasticity in polycrystalline materials and bulk metallic glasses,” arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4063, (2011).

How would I do that? I'm currently using the \bibliographystyle{ieeetr} with a slight modification according to this.

Answer 1

Assuming you've obtained the file ieeetr.bst from a site such as http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/biblio/bibtex/base/, you could make a copy of this file (naming it, e.g., myieeetr.bst) and make the following edits to the newly copied file:

1. In the function format.names, locate the following line (l. 214 in my copy of the file)

   { s nameptr "{f.~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ 't :=
   

   and change it to

   { s nameptr "{vv~}{ll,}{ jj,}{ f.}" format.name$ 't :=
   

   Note: If you do not want a comma between the surname and the first name(s) (unless there's a "junior" part to the author's name), change {ll,}{ jj,} to {ll}{, jj,} in the string given above.

2. Optional: In the function format.crossref.editor (l. 518 in my copy of the file), change the line

       { editor #2 "{ff }{vv }{ll}{ jj}" format.name$ "others" =
   

   to

       { editor #2 "{vv~}{ll, }{jj, }{f.}" format.name$ "others" =
   

3. Save the modified file (repeat: use a filename that's different from ieeetr.bst), either in the directory where your main .tex file is located or somewhere in the search path of your TeX distribution. Then, start invoking it with the statement \bibliographystyle{myieeetr}.