BibTeX leaves out fields

Question

I'm using \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib} package to use an external .bib file for my bibliography. However, some fields of the entries are not shown in the bibliography. This is my code:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm, left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\usepackage{hyperref,graphicx,array}
\usepackage{anyfontsize}
\usepackage{scrextend}
\usepackage{framed,svg,float,tabularx,eurosym,changepage,cite}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}

\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}
\citep{EUROHS14}

\bibliography{biblio} 
\bibliographystyle{dinat}
\end{document}

With the following biblio.bib file:

@article{EUROHS14,
author = {Milanovski, Dragan},
title = {eBriefing for ATC training},
journaltitle = {Hindsight 14},
year = {2011/2012},
editor = {EUROCONTROL},
pages = {60-65},
url = {https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/publication/files/111215-hs14.pdf},
}

This results in:

Thus, leaving out the journaltitle and editor, which to me, seems to be vital information. Can anyone point out how to display this information in the bibliography?

Welcome to TeX.SX! You are using natbib/BibTeX and not biblatex, so I have removed the tag and corrected the title (see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25701/35864 for additional explanations). Because you are not using biblatex the field for the journal title is called simply journal and not journaltitle. Traditionally the bibliography styles do not show the editor for @articles. — moewe, Jul 06 '18 at 15:23
Thanks! That already solves it, is there any way how I can display the editor anyway? — Mike D, Jul 06 '18 at 15:27
Change editor = {EUROCONTROL}, to note = {Editor: {EUROCONTROL}},? — Mico, Jul 06 '18 at 17:38

moewe · Answer 1 · 2018-07-06T15:42:05.353

Since you are using BibTeX with natbib the field for the journal title is just journal and not journaltitle (journaltitle is a biblatex field name, but biblatex also accepts journal).

You should also separate the volume number from the journal title.

@article{EUROHS14,
  author    = {Milanovski, Dragan},
  title     = {eBriefing for ATC training},
  journal   = {HindSight},
  volume    = {14},
  year      = {2011/2012},
  pages     = {60-65},
  url       = {https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/publication/files/111215-hs14.pdf},
}

Traditionally, bibliographies do not show the editor or publisher of journal articles (I'd have said EUROCONTOL is more of an publisher rather than an editor, but be that as it may). If you insist on EUROCONTROL, you can add it to the note field, which will make it appear at the end or you can squeeze it into the journal field like so

journal   = {HindSight (EUROCONTROL)},

or

journal   = {EUROCONTROL: HindSight},

or

journal   = {EUROCONTROL's HindSight},

If the title HindSight is known in your field I would not bother with the EUROCONTROL.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 18:19

Note with bibtex the bib file can use any field names: extra fields are silently ignored.

The handling of fields is not controlled by bibtex itself but by the bibtex style you are using which is dinat.bst in your case. The list of entries accepted is listed at the head of that file which will be installed at a location such as

/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/dinat/dinat.bst

the list is:

ENTRY
  % fields (crossref is default)
  { address
    author
    booktitle
    chapter
    edition
    editor
    howpublished
    institution
    isbn
    issn
    journal
    key
    month
    note
    number
    organization
    pages
    publisher
    school
    series
    title
    type
    url
    urldate
    volume
    year
  }

It should be noted that the list of used/printed fields may very well vary from entry type to entry type. In particular editor is in general a known field for the style, but it is not used for @article. My dinat lists the fields for @article as follows: % required: author, title, journal, year % optional: volume, number, pages, month, note, url, issn which seems to check out. — moewe, Jul 06 '18 at 22:17

BibTeX leaves out fields

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