References switching name and last names

Question

I'm having troubles creating my own references, as it gets desconfigured in the bibliography.

Here is how it have been done in the references.bib file:

@unpublished{apostila_cristiano,
    title={TRIZ},
    author={Ferreira, Cristiano V. and Forcellini, Fernando A.},
    year={2000},
    note={Apostila constituinte do estudo da Tese de Doutorado}

}

And here is my main.tex file

\documentclass[bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{references.bib}

\begin{document}

asdf
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

In the reference there are two autors, Cristiano V. Ferreira and Fernando A. Forcellini. What happens is, the bibliography is not ordering right the second authors name.

Instead of generating

Ferreira, Cristiano V e Forcellini, Fernando A  (2000). “TRIZ”. Apostila 
constituinte do estudo da Tese de Doutorado.

the copilation gives me:

Ferreira, Cristiano V e Fernando A Forcellini (2000). “TRIZ”. Apostila 
constituinte do estudo da Tese de Doutorado.

Could you help me solve this problem?

Virtually all formatting aspects of bibliographic entries -- including the decision whether to place the surname before or after the given name(s) -- are governed by the bibliography style that's in use. Please do share with us which bibliography style you're using at present. — Mico, Jun 06 '18 at 15:42
Incidentally, you should supply dots after the abbreviated middle names, i.e., write the author field as author={Ferreira, Cristiano V. and Forcellini, Fernando A.},. BibTeX makes no assumptions as to whether the single uppercase letters V and A are abbreviations (of Victor and Albert, possibly) or complete given names that just happen to consist of a single letter... — Mico, Jun 06 '18 at 15:47
A solution will depend on the bibliography package (natbib, cite, jurabib, biblatex, ...) you are using as well as on the style (the argument of \bibliographystyle for BibTeX-based styles or the value of the style option for biblatex). Please tell us how you produce your bibliography in an MWE/MWEB. — moewe, Jun 06 '18 at 15:48
@Mico, I've tried adding the dot after the abbreviation and the result haven't altered — Gilgamesh, Jun 06 '18 at 16:08
@Gilgamesh - Please note that I in no way claimed that adding the dots would change the sorting order of first and last names. — Mico, Jun 06 '18 at 16:47

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 06 '18 at 19:12

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With \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given} you can influence the order of the name parts:

\documentclass[bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{references.bib}
@unpublished{apostila_cristiano,
    title={TRIZ},
    author={Ferreira, Cristiano V. and Forcellini, Fernando A.},
    year={2000},
    note={Apostila constituinte do estudo da Tese de Doutorado}

}
\end{filecontents*}

\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given}

\addbibresource{references.bib}

\begin{document}

asdf
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

edited Jun 06 '18 at 19:12

moewe

175,683

answered Jun 06 '18 at 16:17

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz

158,329

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I have taken the liberty to change the name formats to the post-3.3 names (https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/299036/35864) to avoid warnings. Feel free to roll back the edit. – moewe Jun 06 '18 at 19:13
@moewe Thanks a lot for your edit! I guess my biblatex/biber versions are too old to generate the warnings, but I'll wait for 3.12 until I update. (still using 3.10 at the moment) – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jun 06 '18 at 20:03
No sorry, i was mistaken. The old NameFormats do in fact not generate a warning. (Maybe we should look into warnings for version 3.12.) But they should of course still be replaced by the new names. – moewe Jun 06 '18 at 20:06
@moewe Warnings would probably be very helpful. The warnings made me replace firstinits by giveninits. I probably should have checked for other occurrences as in the NameAlias as well. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jun 06 '18 at 20:11
@moewe and I really like the warnings biblatex produces, because it usually exactly tells what to change :) – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jun 06 '18 at 20:14
Well, then you are one of the select few that actually read the warnings ;-). I'll see what we can do. At the moment the old name is simply an alias for the new name. If we wanted to add deprecation warnings, we would have to either copy the entire definitions and add a warning, which does not sound very appealing to me. Or we could define a new command for aliasing with deprecation warning (my favoured option) but that would probably be a command no one ever uses (except the biblatex core for that one occasion). – moewe Jun 06 '18 at 20:19
See https://github.com/plk/biblatex/pull/759 – moewe Jun 08 '18 at 08:27
@moewe Wow! Very helpful -- thanks a lot!!! – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jun 08 '18 at 08:28

References switching name and last names

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