Is is possible to not abbreviate the author name of only one reference in my bibliography?

Question

I am using the IEEEtran.bst file for my bibliography (as follows):

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,biblio}

and it works as desired in all but one case. I have one entry where the 'author' is "World Health Organization and others", which gets abbreviated as "W. H. Organization et al.". Obviously, this is not what I want.

Is there a way I can use IEEEabrv, but make an exception for this one entry?

Please note that I am obliged to use this style (not natbib or anything else) due to the conference submission guidelines.

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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Your problem is not caused by IEEEabrv.bib, which simply contains the abbreviated names of IEEE journals; it is rather caused by the style IEEEtran.bst, which is programmed to abbreviate author names.

According to this, maybe you could write your author as

author = {{\relax World Health Organization} and others}

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered Jun 16 '14 at 17:42

nplatis

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If you do this, you still get a period after "World Health Organization". Is there a way to get rid of that? – Mahkoe Aug 21 '20 at 15:42

score 26 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '18 at 21:50

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The \relax solution didn't work for me, but putting the author in double brackets like this got rid of the problem:

author = {{The Agda Team}}

answered Dec 15 '18 at 21:50

Isti115

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Using author = "{The Agda Team}" will also work. – Tot Zam Dec 23 '21 at 06:17
Same here! Thanks! – Oo.oO Jan 07 '24 at 16:03

Is is possible to not abbreviate the author name of only one reference in my bibliography?

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