bibtex label

bibtex label

[mjh127]

when bibtex suggests a label for a publication written by author
'firstname lastname' it usually turns out to be 'lastnameYY' with YY
being the truncated year of publication. However, I want it to be
'lastnameYYYY' with the full year of publication. I probalby will have
to change some bibtex.el file. But which lines of the code are to be
changed and how?

Re: bibtex label

[Maarten Bergvelt]

In article <1160481327.938393.94790@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, mjh127 wrote:
> when bibtex suggests a label for a publication written by author
> 'firstname lastname' it usually turns out to be 'lastnameYY' with YY
> being the truncated year of publication. However, I want it to be
> 'lastnameYYYY' with the full year of publication. I probalby will have
> to change some bibtex.el file. But which lines of the code are to be
> changed and how?

What do you mean by "bibtex suggests"? When I use bibtex it produces a
label, and what label is controled by the bibliography style. What is
a bibtex.el file? Are you using emacs as your editor? Are you asking a
question about the integration of bibtex with emacs?

Maybe you should read
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=BibTeXing

or chapter 12/13 of the Latex Companion?

Maybe you should give a minimal example of what you do now and
explain what you want to change.

Minimal example?
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl
Ask questions?
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=askquestion
-- 
Maarten Bergvelt

Re: bibtex label

[Kevin Rodgers]

mjh127 wrote:
> when bibtex suggests a label for a publication written by author
> 'firstname lastname' it usually turns out to be 'lastnameYY' with YY
> being the truncated year of publication. However, I want it to be
> 'lastnameYYYY' with the full year of publication. I probalby will have
> to change some bibtex.el file. But which lines of the code are to be
> changed and how?

I don't even use bibtex, but it only took about a minute to find the
relevant option:

C-h v bibtex-autokey-year-length

-- 
Kevin

Re: bibtex label

[mjh127]

Thank you. That solved my problem immediately.
Manfred.

Kevin Rodgers schrieb:

> mjh127 wrote:
> > when bibtex suggests a label for a publication written by author
> > 'firstname lastname' it usually turns out to be 'lastnameYY' with YY
> > being the truncated year of publication. However, I want it to be
> > 'lastnameYYYY' with the full year of publication. I probalby will have
> > to change some bibtex.el file. But which lines of the code are to be
> > changed and how?
>
> I don't even use bibtex, but it only took about a minute to find the
> relevant option:
> 
> C-h v bibtex-autokey-year-length
> 
> -- 
> Kevin