LaTeX unable to parse the names of journals in my bib file due to backslash
I have downloaded various bibtex references from NASA ADS (the astrophysics article finding tool). They all refer to journal names with a backslash as if its a code. For example for an article from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society it says this:
journal = {mnras},
Unfortunately, LaTeX appears to be unable to handle this form of journal name. But since all the downloaded citations are the same, I'm assuming there must be a way for LaTeX to read this. If so, how can i do this?
PS. I am currently using the .bst file found in the following link to read in the references which I assume is where the issue lies: ftp://ftp.edpsciences.org/pub/aa/bibtex/aa.bst
macros bibliographies bibtex
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I have downloaded various bibtex references from NASA ADS (the astrophysics article finding tool). They all refer to journal names with a backslash as if its a code. For example for an article from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society it says this:
journal = {mnras},
Unfortunately, LaTeX appears to be unable to handle this form of journal name. But since all the downloaded citations are the same, I'm assuming there must be a way for LaTeX to read this. If so, how can i do this?
PS. I am currently using the .bst file found in the following link to read in the references which I assume is where the issue lies: ftp://ftp.edpsciences.org/pub/aa/bibtex/aa.bst
macros bibliographies bibtex
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
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Please see tex.stackexchange.com/q/366618/35864 you might also be interested in the rest of tex.stackexchange.com/q/386053/35864
– moewe
Dec 31 '18 at 17:42
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What happens if you add the instructionprovidecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}to the preamble and recompile the document? More generally, do the undefined-macro-name error messages vanish if you (a) download and save the fileaas_macros.styfrom adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/aas_macros.sty and (b) provide the instructionusepackage{aas_macros}in the preamble?
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Jan 1 at 1:42
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I have downloaded various bibtex references from NASA ADS (the astrophysics article finding tool). They all refer to journal names with a backslash as if its a code. For example for an article from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society it says this:
journal = {mnras},
Unfortunately, LaTeX appears to be unable to handle this form of journal name. But since all the downloaded citations are the same, I'm assuming there must be a way for LaTeX to read this. If so, how can i do this?
PS. I am currently using the .bst file found in the following link to read in the references which I assume is where the issue lies: ftp://ftp.edpsciences.org/pub/aa/bibtex/aa.bst
macros bibliographies bibtex
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
Mico
274k30371758
asked Dec 31 '18 at 17:32
Owen JaquesOwen Jaques
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I have downloaded various bibtex references from NASA ADS (the astrophysics article finding tool). They all refer to journal names with a backslash as if its a code. For example for an article from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society it says this:
journal = {mnras},
Unfortunately, LaTeX appears to be unable to handle this form of journal name. But since all the downloaded citations are the same, I'm assuming there must be a way for LaTeX to read this. If so, how can i do this?
PS. I am currently using the .bst file found in the following link to read in the references which I assume is where the issue lies: ftp://ftp.edpsciences.org/pub/aa/bibtex/aa.bst
macros bibliographies bibtex
macros bibliographies bibtex
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
Mico
274k30371758
asked Dec 31 '18 at 17:32
Owen JaquesOwen Jaques
1
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
Mico
274k30371758
asked Dec 31 '18 at 17:32
Owen JaquesOwen Jaques
1
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
Mico
274k30371758
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
Mico
274k30371758
edited Jan 1 at 1:48
Mico
274k30371758
274k30371758
asked Dec 31 '18 at 17:32
Owen JaquesOwen Jaques
1
asked Dec 31 '18 at 17:32
Owen JaquesOwen Jaques
1
asked Dec 31 '18 at 17:32
Owen JaquesOwen Jaques
1
1
2
Please see tex.stackexchange.com/q/366618/35864 you might also be interested in the rest of tex.stackexchange.com/q/386053/35864
– moewe
Dec 31 '18 at 17:42
2
What happens if you add the instructionprovidecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}to the preamble and recompile the document? More generally, do the undefined-macro-name error messages vanish if you (a) download and save the fileaas_macros.styfrom adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/aas_macros.sty and (b) provide the instructionusepackage{aas_macros}in the preamble?
– Mico
Jan 1 at 1:42
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Please see tex.stackexchange.com/q/366618/35864 you might also be interested in the rest of tex.stackexchange.com/q/386053/35864
– moewe
Dec 31 '18 at 17:42
2
What happens if you add the instructionprovidecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}to the preamble and recompile the document? More generally, do the undefined-macro-name error messages vanish if you (a) download and save the fileaas_macros.styfrom adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/aas_macros.sty and (b) provide the instructionusepackage{aas_macros}in the preamble?
– Mico
Jan 1 at 1:42
2
2
Please see tex.stackexchange.com/q/366618/35864 you might also be interested in the rest of tex.stackexchange.com/q/386053/35864
– moewe
Dec 31 '18 at 17:42
Please see tex.stackexchange.com/q/366618/35864 you might also be interested in the rest of tex.stackexchange.com/q/386053/35864
– moewe
Dec 31 '18 at 17:42
2
2
What happens if you add the instruction
providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society} to the preamble and recompile the document? More generally, do the undefined-macro-name error messages vanish if you (a) download and save the file aas_macros.sty from adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/aas_macros.sty and (b) provide the instruction usepackage{aas_macros} in the preamble?– Mico
Jan 1 at 1:42
What happens if you add the instruction
providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society} to the preamble and recompile the document? More generally, do the undefined-macro-name error messages vanish if you (a) download and save the file aas_macros.sty from adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/aas_macros.sty and (b) provide the instruction usepackage{aas_macros} in the preamble?– Mico
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Welcome to TeX.SE!
BibTeX basically works by reading the .bib and handled using the .bst-file. Bib(La)TeX then creates a LaTeX file (with a .bbl extention) based on the .bst files instructions, commonly consisting of a thebibliography environment with a lot of bibitems. The .bst-file for example tells BibTeX that the journal entry should be included in the thebibliography environment.
If then there is this undefined control sequence mnras in the journal entry, then LaTeX is going to complain when the .bbl file is included.
As the NASA ADS FAQ says:
Please note that our BibTeX entries make use of the AASTeX macro definitions for the most popular astronomical journal. If you're not using the AASTeX package then you will need to include these macros in your LaTeX source.
In short all you have to do is download the contents this file, save it as aas_macros.sty and then write usepackage{aas_macros} in your preamble.
In the "general" case of fixing this for empirical errors I suspect the easiest course of action would be, as @mico suggests in the comments, to just define the undefined control sequence to what you want it to show e.g. providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}. (providecommand is like a newcommand but just doesn't do anything if the command already exists).
if you want the actual backslash to show, as the question title suggests, then you'd escape said backslashes using e.g. textbackslash; for example replace mnras with textbackslash mnras. In this case it would show literally "mnras" in your references text.
If you want to redefine how backslash behaves in bibtex, you're in for quite an adventure, and you'd might want to dedicate a day or two to do so.
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Welcome to TeX.SE!
BibTeX basically works by reading the .bib and handled using the .bst-file. Bib(La)TeX then creates a LaTeX file (with a .bbl extention) based on the .bst files instructions, commonly consisting of a thebibliography environment with a lot of bibitems. The .bst-file for example tells BibTeX that the journal entry should be included in the thebibliography environment.
If then there is this undefined control sequence mnras in the journal entry, then LaTeX is going to complain when the .bbl file is included.
As the NASA ADS FAQ says:
Please note that our BibTeX entries make use of the AASTeX macro definitions for the most popular astronomical journal. If you're not using the AASTeX package then you will need to include these macros in your LaTeX source.
In short all you have to do is download the contents this file, save it as aas_macros.sty and then write usepackage{aas_macros} in your preamble.
In the "general" case of fixing this for empirical errors I suspect the easiest course of action would be, as @mico suggests in the comments, to just define the undefined control sequence to what you want it to show e.g. providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}. (providecommand is like a newcommand but just doesn't do anything if the command already exists).
if you want the actual backslash to show, as the question title suggests, then you'd escape said backslashes using e.g. textbackslash; for example replace mnras with textbackslash mnras. In this case it would show literally "mnras" in your references text.
If you want to redefine how backslash behaves in bibtex, you're in for quite an adventure, and you'd might want to dedicate a day or two to do so.
answered Jan 1 at 10:41
Andreas Storvik StraumanAndreas Storvik Strauman
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Welcome to TeX.SE!
BibTeX basically works by reading the .bib and handled using the .bst-file. Bib(La)TeX then creates a LaTeX file (with a .bbl extention) based on the .bst files instructions, commonly consisting of a thebibliography environment with a lot of bibitems. The .bst-file for example tells BibTeX that the journal entry should be included in the thebibliography environment.
If then there is this undefined control sequence mnras in the journal entry, then LaTeX is going to complain when the .bbl file is included.
As the NASA ADS FAQ says:
Please note that our BibTeX entries make use of the AASTeX macro definitions for the most popular astronomical journal. If you're not using the AASTeX package then you will need to include these macros in your LaTeX source.
In short all you have to do is download the contents this file, save it as aas_macros.sty and then write usepackage{aas_macros} in your preamble.
In the "general" case of fixing this for empirical errors I suspect the easiest course of action would be, as @mico suggests in the comments, to just define the undefined control sequence to what you want it to show e.g. providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}. (providecommand is like a newcommand but just doesn't do anything if the command already exists).
if you want the actual backslash to show, as the question title suggests, then you'd escape said backslashes using e.g. textbackslash; for example replace mnras with textbackslash mnras. In this case it would show literally "mnras" in your references text.
If you want to redefine how backslash behaves in bibtex, you're in for quite an adventure, and you'd might want to dedicate a day or two to do so.
answered Jan 1 at 10:41
Andreas Storvik StraumanAndreas Storvik Strauman
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Welcome to TeX.SE!
BibTeX basically works by reading the .bib and handled using the .bst-file. Bib(La)TeX then creates a LaTeX file (with a .bbl extention) based on the .bst files instructions, commonly consisting of a thebibliography environment with a lot of bibitems. The .bst-file for example tells BibTeX that the journal entry should be included in the thebibliography environment.
If then there is this undefined control sequence mnras in the journal entry, then LaTeX is going to complain when the .bbl file is included.
As the NASA ADS FAQ says:
Please note that our BibTeX entries make use of the AASTeX macro definitions for the most popular astronomical journal. If you're not using the AASTeX package then you will need to include these macros in your LaTeX source.
In short all you have to do is download the contents this file, save it as aas_macros.sty and then write usepackage{aas_macros} in your preamble.
In the "general" case of fixing this for empirical errors I suspect the easiest course of action would be, as @mico suggests in the comments, to just define the undefined control sequence to what you want it to show e.g. providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}. (providecommand is like a newcommand but just doesn't do anything if the command already exists).
if you want the actual backslash to show, as the question title suggests, then you'd escape said backslashes using e.g. textbackslash; for example replace mnras with textbackslash mnras. In this case it would show literally "mnras" in your references text.
If you want to redefine how backslash behaves in bibtex, you're in for quite an adventure, and you'd might want to dedicate a day or two to do so.
answered Jan 1 at 10:41
Andreas Storvik StraumanAndreas Storvik Strauman
2,528418
Welcome to TeX.SE!
BibTeX basically works by reading the .bib and handled using the .bst-file. Bib(La)TeX then creates a LaTeX file (with a .bbl extention) based on the .bst files instructions, commonly consisting of a thebibliography environment with a lot of bibitems. The .bst-file for example tells BibTeX that the journal entry should be included in the thebibliography environment.
If then there is this undefined control sequence mnras in the journal entry, then LaTeX is going to complain when the .bbl file is included.
As the NASA ADS FAQ says:
Please note that our BibTeX entries make use of the AASTeX macro definitions for the most popular astronomical journal. If you're not using the AASTeX package then you will need to include these macros in your LaTeX source.
In short all you have to do is download the contents this file, save it as aas_macros.sty and then write usepackage{aas_macros} in your preamble.
In the "general" case of fixing this for empirical errors I suspect the easiest course of action would be, as @mico suggests in the comments, to just define the undefined control sequence to what you want it to show e.g. providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}. (providecommand is like a newcommand but just doesn't do anything if the command already exists).
if you want the actual backslash to show, as the question title suggests, then you'd escape said backslashes using e.g. textbackslash; for example replace mnras with textbackslash mnras. In this case it would show literally "mnras" in your references text.
If you want to redefine how backslash behaves in bibtex, you're in for quite an adventure, and you'd might want to dedicate a day or two to do so.
answered Jan 1 at 10:41
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– moewe
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What happens if you add the instruction
providecommandmnras{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}to the preamble and recompile the document? More generally, do the undefined-macro-name error messages vanish if you (a) download and save the fileaas_macros.styfrom adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/aas_macros.sty and (b) provide the instructionusepackage{aas_macros}in the preamble?– Mico
Jan 1 at 1:42