Nontraditional "author" names

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Lots of online resources want to be cited with strange “author” names, e.g.

@Electronic{keyhere2023,
author = {New World Encyclopedia},
title = {Carbonic acid — New World Encyclopedia},
url = {URL here},
year = {2023},
}

JabRef’s “citation preview” treats that as if the author is somebody named N.W. Encyclopedia, and that also happens to the citation in the manuscript. How to preserve the desired appearance (New World Citation) in “citation preview” and in the citation in the manuscript?

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TL;DR wrap it into {}

Good catch! I also struggled one time with this. 2 points:

  1. This is related to BibTex/BibLaTeX, and citation styles. This is not related to JabRef
  2. To keep names as is you need to use protected terms. It’s basically text wrapped in {}. This is a feature of Bib(La)TeX

So it really will look like author = {{New World Encyclopedia}}

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@tedc In the bibtex standard, you have to wrap such authors in an extra pair of curly braces. This is actually.

You can also easily achieve this by doing right click in the author field

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Thanks for your very prompt replies. Already tried “protect selection” but it didn’t fix the problem. The BibTeX source looks like

@Electronic{NewWorldEncyclopedia2023,
author = {{New World Encyclopedia}},
etc.

but the “author” still appears as Encyclopedia NW in JabRef’s citation preview, and the generated citation in the paper’s reference list is rendered as

Encyclopedia, N. W.. Carbonic acid etc.. If it matters, I’m using JabRef 5.6 running on Rocky Linux 9.6.

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JabRef 5.6 is very outdated. I suggest you either try 5.15 or the latest 6.0 version

With the default JabRef preview it works.

Remember to make a backup of your library.

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Besides protecting the selection, you can also use no-break spaces. Try `New~World~Encyclopedia`.

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“JabRef 5.6 is very outdated.“ Everything is outdated. Time is precious. Nonbreaking spaces worked.

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