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I have been asked to modify one of the reference in my paper to the following fashion:

LastName1, Initial of First Name1, LastName2, Initial of First Name2, ..., year. Title, Journal.

I am using \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} style and for bibliography style as \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}, which renders the default style of the references as FirstName, LastName. How to modify one of the reference to LastName1, Initial of First Name1 format.

Please note that I want this for only one reference and answer here: Displaying author's name in a bibliographic entry in the form: Surname, First Initial of Firstname modifies all the entries.

If I directly paste the author names in the LastName,Initial of FirstName fashion in author field of bibtex file, it renders as Initial of FirstName,LastName fashion.

EDIT (an attempt at producing MWE for this):

  \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\title{MWE ACMART BIBLIOGRAPHY} \author{abc} \date{August 2020}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction} \cite{paper1} \cite{paper2} \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format} \bibliography{main} \end{document}

My bib file:

   @misc{paper1,
      title={title},
      author={LastName1 and Initial-of-FirstName1. and LastName2 and Initial-of-FirstName2. and LastName3 and Initial-of-FirstName3.},
      year={2020},
      eprint={xxxx.xxxx},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.SI}
  }

@misc{paper2, title={title}, author={FirstName1 LastName1 and FirstName2 LastName2 and FirstName3 LastName3}, year={2020}, eprint={xxxx.xxxx}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.SI} }

This is what I get:

Result

What I really want:

LastName1, Initial-of-First-Name1., LastName2, Initial-of-First-Name2. and LastName3, Initial-of-First-Name3. title. arXiv:cs.SI/xxxx.xxxx

learner
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  • Since you are using \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format} you use BibTeX and not biblatex, so I'll retag the question accordingly. pdfTeX is also unlikely to be relevant here, so I'll remove it as well. Note that you have a much better chance of getting a good answer quickly if you also include a short example document in your question that shows what you are doing (an MWE: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864). – moewe Aug 09 '20 at 13:09
  • Just so I understand correctly: You want to change the name format for only a specific reference entry? Would it not be easier to just input the name with initials in that case? – moewe Aug 09 '20 at 13:10
  • Hi @moewe yes, indeed, I want to change the name format for only a specific reference entry only. I did exactly that by replacing the initials in \author field in that particular bibliographic entry, but, now facing a problem with the last comma. I will attempt by adding a MWE, thanks. – learner Aug 09 '20 at 13:17
  • Hi, @moewe added a MWE. Hope it helps in understanding the problem. – learner Aug 09 '20 at 13:50
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    If this is just a one-off, I'd probably use a kludge like author={{LastName1, I.} and {LastName2, I.} and {LastName3, I.}}, It is not impossible for a BibTeX style to support different name formats, but it would be very unusual (at least if I understand what you want correctly) and you'd need a 'flag' to tell BibTeX to format certain names differently. (For future questions note that MWEs with real data can sometimes be easier to understand than those with stuff like 'LastName1, Initial-of-First-Name1.') – moewe Aug 09 '20 at 16:05
  • Hi @moewe, the reviewers of my paper asked me to particularly reference one paper, because, that is what paper is based on and this is the format they used. I am a little double minded now if I should change the format of one reference, they particularly asked or all the references. So, I went with only one reference, that they actually, asked for. – learner Aug 09 '20 at 16:13
  • By the way, what would you recommend to use if I want to change all the references in this format of ``LastName1, I.`? – learner Aug 09 '20 at 16:15
  • If they just asked you to cite that paper and did not explicitly ask you to cite it in that way, I'd just cite it as usual and not worry about the exact format. If you are submitting to a journal you need to follow their style anyway. – moewe Aug 09 '20 at 16:15
  • Actually, they gave me the exact citation and wrote it in {{LastName1, I.} format in the email. They said "Moreover, the dataset has to be properly referenced by using: LastName, I. .......

    This is the ACM conference. It does have a style \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart}.

    – learner Aug 09 '20 at 16:21
  • Also, your comment answers my question. – learner Aug 09 '20 at 16:37

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