Using geman ö and ß in Bibtex

Question

in my Bibtex file i name the Author: author={R{\"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht}, but in the literature list it strangely outputs this:

[Rößler und Ungerer 2012] RÖSSLER, Irene; UNGERER, Albrecht:...

where the second RÖSSLER should also be RÖßLER

Update2: MWE

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,fleqn,oneside,numbers=noendperiod,headings=normal,appendixprefix=true,bibliography=totoc,listof=totoc]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

Standardnormalverteiung ben\"otigt (\citep[S. 123]{mathe}).

\bibliographystyle{dinat}
\bibliography{MeineBib}

\end{document}

MeineBib:

@incollection{mathe,
year={2012},
booktitle={Statistik für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler},
series={BA KOMPAKT},
title={Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung},
publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
author={R{\"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht},
pages={83-136},
language={German}
}

Welcome to TeX.SX! I guess you are using the wrong document class. All options are related to scrartcl instead of article. Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — Marco Daniel, May 13 '13 at 18:27
Isn't the reason simply that there is no capital ß (Ok, I know that Unicode recently ratified it, but what do they know?). — Simifilm, May 13 '13 at 18:34
If you are getting this output then you need to show exactly a small complete document that shows the problem. Can you also paste the exact entry from your .bib file. I suspect you have an extra space there, perhaps. — Alan Munn, May 13 '13 at 18:35
@Simifilm the extra space in the output is his problem, but to understand that one needs a full MWE ... something fishy here — Frank Mittelbach, May 13 '13 at 18:36
yes... working on it... the bibtex entry is as follows >@incollection{mathe, year={2012}, isbn={978-3-642-32256-3}, booktitle={Statistik f{"u}r Wirtschaftswissenschaftler}, series={BA KOMPAKT}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32257-0_4}, title={Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32257-0_4}, publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author={R{"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht}, pages={83-136}, language={German} } — Sid, May 13 '13 at 18:41
possible duplicate of How to code ß (German "sharp S") in BibTeX — mafp, May 13 '13 at 18:43
@user30652 You can [edit] your question when you’re providing more code. Also see the bottom of my answer at I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that? for a hint on how to include biliography MWEs. (And a tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it).) — doncherry, May 13 '13 at 18:44
The posted .bib file contains a ~ after {\ss}. This will give a hard coded space; it should simply be removed. — Andrew Swann, May 13 '13 at 18:51
Thank you Andrew, i dont know where that came from... it solved the space issue... sadly the RÖSSLER issue in the Literature list still exists. @Marco im not sure how the document class is related to my problem... Still working on the MWE i think i messed it up ;) — Sid, May 13 '13 at 18:54
@user30652 If you don’t want to have to type ben\"otigt every time, check out Automatically change é to 'e – most convenient setup for accented letters?. — doncherry, May 13 '13 at 18:55
thanks, i didnt know i could do that... saved me alot of frustration ;) — Sid, May 13 '13 at 19:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '13 at 18:52

The error is in your entry. You are typing: R{\"o}{\ss}~ler. However the token ~ forces a space. So simple write: R{\"o}{\ss}ler.

Here the correct entry:

@incollection{mathe,
 year={2012},
 isbn={978-3-642-32256-3},
 booktitle={Statistik für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler},
 series={BA KOMPAKT},
 doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32257-0_4},
 title={Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung},
 url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32257-0_4},
 publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
 author={R{\"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht},
 pages={83-136},
 language={German}
}

The following options only work with a KOMA class. In your case it ought be scrartcl.

 numbers=noendperiod,headings=normal,%
 appendixprefix=true,bibliography=totoc,
 listof=totoc

Here a correct mwe

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,fleqn,oneside,%
     numbers=noendperiod,headings=normal,%
     appendixprefix=true,bibliography=totoc,
     listof=totoc]%
{scrartcl}
\usepackage{natbib}                                        
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}                               
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} %Spezialzeichen in Tex-Code
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{MeineBib.bib}
@incollection{mathe,
 year={2012},
 isbn={978-3-642-32256-3},
 booktitle={Statistik für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler},
 series={BA KOMPAKT},
 doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32257-0_4},
 title={Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung},
 url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32257-0_4},
 publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
 author={R{\"o}{\ss}ler, Irene and Ungerer, Albrecht},
 pages={83-136},
 language={German}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

Standardnormalverteiung ben\"otigt (\citep[S. 123]{mathe}).

\bibliographystyle{dinat}
\bibliography{MeineBib}

\end{document}

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Thank you, but the second entry "RÖSSLER" is still with SS instead of ß im new to this and im trying my best. sorry for any inconveniences caused by my poor forum skills :) — Sid, May 13 '13 at 19:05
Anyway i found out that SS in the "small capitals" font is the correct translation for ß. I didnt know that :D. Thank you Marco for your answer. — Sid, May 13 '13 at 19:09
@Sid officially there is no uppercase “ß” and also no small caps “ß” and “SS” is orthographically correct there. (Some fonts do have uppercase and sc versions of “ß”, though...) — cgnieder, May 13 '13 at 19:19
@Sid If you want an uppercase ß (ẞ – ẞ), you can use XeLaTeX and the packages fontspec and libertine: http://i.stack.imgur.com/XMGvh.png — doncherry, May 13 '13 at 19:29
@doncherry Go, libertine! :) (The ẞ could be kerned a little bit closer to the ö, though... or the small caps could be spaced out more... or both...) — cgnieder, May 13 '13 at 20:16

Using geman ö and ß in Bibtex

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