"Normalize to BibTeX name format" should help when manually importing entries.

[koppor]

JabRef as of 2016-04-12, 39f7ed7

Steps:

1. Use ISBN to BibTeX fetcher with 978-3-642-02373-6
2. Go to required fields
3. Editor is empty
4. Go to http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642023736
5. Copy the editors string Ali Babar, M., Dingsøyr, T., Lago, P., van der Vliet, H.
6. Right click in the editors field and select "Normalize to BibTeX name format"
7. Result: Ali Babar, M., Dingsøyr T. Lago P. van der Vliet H.

Expected: Babar, Ali and M. and Dingsøyr, T. and Lago, P. and van der Vliet, H.

JabRef 3.2: Babar, Ali and M. and Dingsøyr and T. and Lago and P. and van der Vliet and H.

Refs #318 and #950

[tobiasdiez]

The comma as a separator of author names was removed in #1149. It is just not clear how to consistently guess the right naming schema. Just replace the commas separating authors by semicolons and everything should work as expected.

[koppor]

Ah, great hint. Then, the implementation is easy:

Check

• only , (no ;, no and)
• even number of ,

Then, convert every second , to ; and then run the implemented algorithm.

[tobiasdiez]

But then Name, della, first would be recognized as two names although it is valid BibTeX syntax for one name with vonPart = della.

[koppor]

Oh, I see it at http://maverick.inria.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/xdkbibtex/bibtex_summary.html, section "Names specifications". According to that explanation della would be the Jr part, not the von part. Reading that and also assuming that I never saw three commas, I would accept that this "helper" formats 1% of the cases wrong.

[matthiasgeiger]

-- sorry comment should be placed in the PR

[koppor]

Fixed by #1470