# Names are not in standard biblatex format warning

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** entry-editor\
**Created:** [June 20, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212 "2018-06-20T20:04:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![mvalle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/mvalle/32/213_2.png) [@mvalle](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/mvalle)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212/1 "2018-06-20T20:04:46Z")

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When I try to enter “PAM Dirac” or “UN Staff” as author of a book, JabRef complains that “Names are not in standard biblatex format”. If I leave only the initial uppercase they are accepted. (Yes, I know that I can disable checking, but seems too extreme a solution to me). Unfortunately in the biblatex documentation I don’t find which is the correct format for author names. Is JabRef too strict or there is a method to make the above names accepted? Thanks! Mario  
(JabRef 4.3.1 on Windows 10 64bits)

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212/2 "2018-06-21T15:08:14Z")

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Hi,

for corporate authors to be handled correctly, you should wrap them in an extra pair of curly braces, e.g. in the author field:

```
{PAM Dirac}
```

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**Author:** ![mvalle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/mvalle/32/213_2.png) [@mvalle](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/mvalle)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212/3 "2018-06-22T17:03:36Z")

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Thanks! Overlooking the obvious…

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**Author:** ![tobiasdiez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/tobiasdiez/32/340_2.png) [@tobiasdiez](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/tobiasdiez)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212/4 "2018-06-26T15:58:53Z")

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Actually, Mr Dirac is not a corporation but a mathematical physicist. You can simply add points after the initials: `P. A. M. Dirac` should not print an error.

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**Author:** ![mvalle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/mvalle/32/213_2.png) [@mvalle](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/mvalle)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/names-are-not-in-standard-biblatex-format-warning/1212/5 "2018-06-27T06:38:19Z")

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PAM Dirac was just an example. The real entry was something like “NERSC Staff”. Anyway, adding {} around solved the problem.

Anyway, I would like to bring to your attention that in biblatex the curly braces are silently added.