Cfrgtkky

I have to work with a custom .bst file for a paper. When I have exactly two authors for a reference, these authors are separated in text with " , ".

So e.g. (Simonyan , Zisserman, 2014). I want it to be (Simonyan and Zisserman, 2014).

In my bibliography the style is correct.
So, is it necessary to change the .bst file?

I think here are the relevant lines:

INTEGERS { nameptr namesleft numnames }



FUNCTION {format.names}

{ 's :=

  'f :=

  #1 'nameptr :=

  s num.names$ 'numnames :=

  numnames 'namesleft :=

    { namesleft #0 > }

    { s nameptr f format.name$ 't :=

      nameptr #1 >

        { namesleft #1 >

            { ", " * t * }

            { t "others" =

                { " et~al." * }

                { ", " * t * }

              if$

            }

          if$

        }

        't

      if$

      nameptr #1 + 'nameptr :=

      namesleft #1 - 'namesleft :=

    }

  while$

}



FUNCTION {format.authors}

{ author empty$

    { "" }

    { "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}" author format.names }

  if$

}

The relevant macro is format.lab.names.abbr. For the "and" it has to read

FUNCTION {format.lab.names.abbr}

{ 's :=

  s num.names$ 'numnames :=

  numnames #1 >

    { numnames #2 >

        { s #1 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ " et al." * }

        { s #2 "{ff }{vv }{ll}{ jj}" format.name$ "others" =

            { s #1 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ " et al." * }

            { s #1 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ " and " *

              s #2 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ * 

            }

          if$

        }

      if$

    }

    { s #1 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ }

  if$

}

the change is in the second branch of the innermost conditional. The version of isprs.bst currently available at http://www.isprs.org/documents/orangebook/app5.aspx has

s #1 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ " , " * % replaced and with ,

there and we make it read

s #1 "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ " and " *

again. Note their comment and the spurious whitespace before the comma.

Of course you should still report this issue to the maintainer of the template and you should not modify the .bst file directly. Only modify and renamed copy, isprs-and.bst say, and document the changes.