proper format for pdfauthor in case of two authors [closed]
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Assuming a paper has two authors: John Smith and Sally Sixpack, what's the "right" (i.e., most useful) way to put them into the pdfauthor option of hyperref? Choices:
pdfauthor={John Smith and Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith, Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith; Sally Sixpack}- ... (your choice goes here) ...
There are absolutely no "hard" external requirements on the paper in this respect. My only "soft" wish is to help the potential readers. Initially, these are the reviewers; finally, these are the folks finding their way to the paper through the various Web search engines and through Oxford University Press (https://academic.oup.com/journals).
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Assuming a paper has two authors: John Smith and Sally Sixpack, what's the "right" (i.e., most useful) way to put them into the pdfauthor option of hyperref? Choices:
pdfauthor={John Smith and Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith, Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith; Sally Sixpack}- ... (your choice goes here) ...
There are absolutely no "hard" external requirements on the paper in this respect. My only "soft" wish is to help the potential readers. Initially, these are the reviewers; finally, these are the folks finding their way to the paper through the various Web search engines and through Oxford University Press (https://academic.oup.com/journals).
hyperref pdf metadata
asked Nov 18 at 13:20
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closed as primarily opinion-based by CarLaTeX, Kurt, samcarter, Phelype Oleinik, Stefan Pinnow Nov 18 at 16:54
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@DũngVũ I see. I updated the question in this regard.
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Nov 18 at 13:57
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Assuming a paper has two authors: John Smith and Sally Sixpack, what's the "right" (i.e., most useful) way to put them into the pdfauthor option of hyperref? Choices:
pdfauthor={John Smith and Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith, Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith; Sally Sixpack}- ... (your choice goes here) ...
There are absolutely no "hard" external requirements on the paper in this respect. My only "soft" wish is to help the potential readers. Initially, these are the reviewers; finally, these are the folks finding their way to the paper through the various Web search engines and through Oxford University Press (https://academic.oup.com/journals).
hyperref pdf metadata
asked Nov 18 at 13:20
user49915
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Assuming a paper has two authors: John Smith and Sally Sixpack, what's the "right" (i.e., most useful) way to put them into the pdfauthor option of hyperref? Choices:
pdfauthor={John Smith and Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith, Sally Sixpack}pdfauthor={John Smith; Sally Sixpack}- ... (your choice goes here) ...
There are absolutely no "hard" external requirements on the paper in this respect. My only "soft" wish is to help the potential readers. Initially, these are the reviewers; finally, these are the folks finding their way to the paper through the various Web search engines and through Oxford University Press (https://academic.oup.com/journals).
hyperref pdf metadata
hyperref pdf metadata
asked Nov 18 at 13:20
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asked Nov 18 at 13:20
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edited Nov 18 at 15:07
asked Nov 18 at 13:20
user49915
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asked Nov 18 at 13:20
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asked Nov 18 at 13:20
user49915
37416
37416
closed as primarily opinion-based by CarLaTeX, Kurt, samcarter, Phelype Oleinik, Stefan Pinnow Nov 18 at 16:54
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
closed as primarily opinion-based by CarLaTeX, Kurt, samcarter, Phelype Oleinik, Stefan Pinnow Nov 18 at 16:54
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@DũngVũ I see. I updated the question in this regard.
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Nov 18 at 13:57
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@DũngVũ I see. I updated the question in this regard.
– user49915
Nov 18 at 13:57
@DũngVũ I see. I updated the question in this regard.
– user49915
Nov 18 at 13:57
@DũngVũ I see. I updated the question in this regard.
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The pdfauthor entry goes into the Author field in a PDF file's document information dictionary. The PDF specification only says that this is a text string, for the "name of the person who created the document".
What's the most useful format when you have multiple authors? Journal articles or books will have authoritative information in the DOI and publisher databases. Search engines don't seem to surface the Author metadata to users, though they probably do index it. The most likely other use I can think of for the Author field is bibliography management software that extract information from PDF files, such as Zotero. Zotero handles the format "John Smith and Sally Sixpack" well.
(Note that you can also provide PDF metadata using the XMP format, which is much more tightly specified and allows you to provide other relevant information such as the licence for the content, using the xmpincl package.)
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
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I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verboseJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterbecause that can just be copied directly into a.bibfile and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse theands here, but I'm sure they are.).
– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
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Yes, I useJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterand Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.
– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
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The pdfauthor entry goes into the Author field in a PDF file's document information dictionary. The PDF specification only says that this is a text string, for the "name of the person who created the document".
What's the most useful format when you have multiple authors? Journal articles or books will have authoritative information in the DOI and publisher databases. Search engines don't seem to surface the Author metadata to users, though they probably do index it. The most likely other use I can think of for the Author field is bibliography management software that extract information from PDF files, such as Zotero. Zotero handles the format "John Smith and Sally Sixpack" well.
(Note that you can also provide PDF metadata using the XMP format, which is much more tightly specified and allows you to provide other relevant information such as the licence for the content, using the xmpincl package.)
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verboseJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterbecause that can just be copied directly into a.bibfile and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse theands here, but I'm sure they are.).
– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
1
Yes, I useJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterand Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.
– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
add a comment |
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The pdfauthor entry goes into the Author field in a PDF file's document information dictionary. The PDF specification only says that this is a text string, for the "name of the person who created the document".
What's the most useful format when you have multiple authors? Journal articles or books will have authoritative information in the DOI and publisher databases. Search engines don't seem to surface the Author metadata to users, though they probably do index it. The most likely other use I can think of for the Author field is bibliography management software that extract information from PDF files, such as Zotero. Zotero handles the format "John Smith and Sally Sixpack" well.
(Note that you can also provide PDF metadata using the XMP format, which is much more tightly specified and allows you to provide other relevant information such as the licence for the content, using the xmpincl package.)
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verboseJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterbecause that can just be copied directly into a.bibfile and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse theands here, but I'm sure they are.).
– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
1
Yes, I useJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterand Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.
– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
add a comment |
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2
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up vote
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The pdfauthor entry goes into the Author field in a PDF file's document information dictionary. The PDF specification only says that this is a text string, for the "name of the person who created the document".
What's the most useful format when you have multiple authors? Journal articles or books will have authoritative information in the DOI and publisher databases. Search engines don't seem to surface the Author metadata to users, though they probably do index it. The most likely other use I can think of for the Author field is bibliography management software that extract information from PDF files, such as Zotero. Zotero handles the format "John Smith and Sally Sixpack" well.
(Note that you can also provide PDF metadata using the XMP format, which is much more tightly specified and allows you to provide other relevant information such as the licence for the content, using the xmpincl package.)
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
The pdfauthor entry goes into the Author field in a PDF file's document information dictionary. The PDF specification only says that this is a text string, for the "name of the person who created the document".
What's the most useful format when you have multiple authors? Journal articles or books will have authoritative information in the DOI and publisher databases. Search engines don't seem to surface the Author metadata to users, though they probably do index it. The most likely other use I can think of for the Author field is bibliography management software that extract information from PDF files, such as Zotero. Zotero handles the format "John Smith and Sally Sixpack" well.
(Note that you can also provide PDF metadata using the XMP format, which is much more tightly specified and allows you to provide other relevant information such as the licence for the content, using the xmpincl package.)
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
answered Nov 18 at 15:00
Eric Marsden
61136
61136
I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verboseJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterbecause that can just be copied directly into a.bibfile and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse theands here, but I'm sure they are.).
– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
1
Yes, I useJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterand Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.
– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
add a comment |
I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verboseJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterbecause that can just be copied directly into a.bibfile and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse theands here, but I'm sure they are.).
– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
1
Yes, I useJane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riterand Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.
– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
I thought that scholar.google provides the reader with the contents of the author field, but I might be wrong, after all. Thx for mentioning zotero!
– user49915
Nov 18 at 15:06
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verbose
Jane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riter because that can just be copied directly into a .bib file and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse the ands here, but I'm sure they are.).– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
Out of interest: What would you recommend for three authors? I can see merits in the verbose
Jane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riter because that can just be copied directly into a .bib file and does not look to bad for those who actually read the metadata themselves (I'm assuming that Google et al. are clever enough to parse the ands here, but I'm sure they are.).– moewe
Nov 18 at 15:07
1
1
Yes, I use
Jane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riter and Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
Yes, I use
Jane Smith and Anne Elk and William Riter and Zotero at least can parse that from the PDF file automatically.– Eric Marsden
Nov 18 at 15:18
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@DũngVũ I see. I updated the question in this regard.
– user49915
Nov 18 at 13:57