Inverted circumflex in BibTex

Question

To encode an inverted circumflex accent in text method I use the following formulation:

 \v{C}

Which produces the desired outcome:

In my BibTex file I have an author whose name requires the same accent:

Author = {Maksimovi\'{c}, \v{C}.},

This however, produces the following in the Bibliography section:

How should I encode the inverted circumflex in the BibTex file?

Answer 1

The accent is called caron (or háček).

The correct input for accented letters in BibTeX files is like

Maksimovi{\'c}, {\v{C}}.

Indeed, the test file

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{maks,
  author={Maksimovi{\'c}, {\v{C}}.},
  title={Title},
  journal={Journal},
  year=2017,
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Citation: \cite{maks}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

produces