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I use Jabref to store all articles I need and bibtex4word add-on (in MS Word) to maintain the reference list. So, I would like to know how to properly fill the "author" field in Jabref with multiple authors to appear them correct in the reference list.

For example, I've got the article with several authors:

E. Orti, J.L. Bredas, C. Clarisse

And I would like them to appear in this manner. But instead I get this:

C. C. E. Orti, J. L. Bredas

gman
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    With your setup, the author field is interpreted as containing a single author, with "E. Orti" as the surname component, "J.L. Bredas" as the junior component, and "C. Clarisse" as the first-name component. The bibliography style you employ appears to be set to (a) abbreviate first names down to their initials and (b) place the first-name initials before the surname component. Moreover, the junior component is separated from the remainder of the name with a comma. That's why you're getting "C. C. E. Orti, J.L. Bredas" as the formatted output. Moral of the story: Use proper input syntax. – Mico Sep 20 '17 at 11:00

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The appropriate separator for authors is "and". Comma is used to distinguish first and last name (link):

author = "Orti, E. and Bredas, J.L. and Clarisse, C.",
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    Just a comment for people looking at this later. Biber 1.5+ allows you to customise the separator for names and lists to something other than 'and' if you want to. – PLK Dec 02 '12 at 22:04
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    @stefan, Here is the page on archive.org (from June 20, 2013): https://web.archive.org/web/20130620150431/http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibstyles.html – Conrad Meyer May 01 '14 at 18:49
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    Shouldn't J.L. be J. L.? – mankoff Jan 09 '15 at 01:31
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    Better yet is J.~L. this way there is a space between the two initials but the 5 characters (2 letter, 2 full stops, and one space) are treated as on typographical unit and will always appear on the same line. – John Washburn Oct 04 '15 at 17:35
  • We should avoid using \& or any other separators, am I right? – zyy Mar 05 '19 at 01:59
  • @PLK Isn't that just for how it's displayed, not parsed? – Noldorin Jan 20 '21 at 20:44
  • @Noldorin - no, the biber options are for parsing - there are biblatex macros for changing display – PLK Jan 21 '21 at 21:10
  • @PLK, Yes, it's the --namesep operator, for anyone wondering. – Noldorin Jan 21 '21 at 21:54