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Bibtex handling of the Dutch “van” name prefix with natbib

In Dutch many people have a surname addition (Jan de Vries, Peter van Sluik), which are capitalized when the first name is not included.

  • Yesterday I had beer with Jan de Vries.
  • Yesterday I had beer with De Vries.

When sorting names alphabetically, the additions are not counted and put behind the first name.

  • Jansen, Jaap

  • Vries, Jan de

How do I make sure Bibtex handles this correctly?

I have tried the following:

1 author = "Jan de Vries",

2 author = "Jan De Vries",

3 author = "Jan {de Vries}",

4 author = "Jan {De Vries}",

With:

 @PREAMBLE{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} " 
          # "\newcommand{\singleletter}[1]{#1} " }

5 author = "Jan {\noopsort{Vries}}{de Vries}",

6 author = "Jan {\noopsort{Vries}}{De Vries}",

1 Correctly reads 'de' as a surname addition, but then doesn't capitalize it in text: "I had beer with de Vries (2012)."

2 Reads 'De' as second first name, hence ignores it in the text: "I had beer with Vries (2012).", also it wrong capitalizes the addition in the references (Vries, Jan De)

3 Treats 'de Vries' as surname, not capitalizing it in the text, and sorting it wrongly in the references.

4 Treats 'De Vries' as surname, doest it well in the text (since one only references to something with his first name once, this is done with "I had beer with Jan de Vries \citeyearp{Vries12}". This is sorts the name wrongly in the references.

5 Prints the name wrongly in the text, sorts it well, but doesn't put 'de' behind the first name in the references: "de Vries, Jan".

6 This is the best soplution I've found. In text is okay, sorting is good, but the name order and capitalisation goes wrong in the references: "De Vries, Jan" which should be: "Vries, Jan de"

This boils down to the following question:

  • How can I make a distinction in bibtex between the name as it is used in text and as it is used in the references?

(I had hoped the package babelbib would fix this language specific problem for me, but it doesn't.)

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    Would this answer help? http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/40750/4427 – egreg Oct 11 '12 at 11:55
  • You're an angel, egreg! I'd wish I'd found that one myself....

    Back to Google-fu school with me. ;)

     – Gauwain Oct 11 '12 at 12:02
  • I forgot to say "Welcome to TeX.SX!" It's not only Google-fu, I should admit: I gave that answer. :) Don't worry if your first question will be closed as duplicate: it will still be helpful to other readers. – egreg Oct 11 '12 at 12:13
  • Thanks for the welcome. This solves it, mostly. I'd rather also have the option of putting the 'van' after the first name in the references. "Vries, Jan de", the provided solution doesn't offer that. But this works well enough for now. – Gauwain Oct 11 '12 at 12:30
  • What bib style are you using? – egreg Oct 11 '12 at 12:38
  • ChigacoReedWeb, available here: http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/bibtexstyles.html. A least, I think it's the same. – Gauwain Oct 12 '12 at 13:32
  • Write author={{\VAN{De}{}}Vries, J. de}, – egreg Oct 12 '12 at 13:44
  • Thanks! That did exactly what it should! You're an angel and let no-one tell you different, kind sir. – Gauwain Oct 29 '12 at 17:32

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