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Author indexing

In the index, authors are indexed by family names, and all authors of all articles are indexed. Authors after the first in a multi-author entry are cross-referenced by see also entries.

When the BibTEX data is properly marked up, compound or aristocratic family names, such as Fearnley-Sander , von Beethoven , ter Haar , van den Heuvel , and Meyer auf der Heide are recognized and indexed under all phrase suffixes of the compound: Sander , Beethoven , Haar , den Heuvel , Heuvel , auf der Heide , der Heide , and Heide . This follows the indexing advice of Words into Type , but disagrees with the Chicago Manual of Style , whose recommendation against this seems more based on editorial labor reduction, than on reader convenience.

The Chicago Manual of Style recommends placement of Junior-like suffixes at the end of an inverted name, so that they would convert P. D. Q. Bach, Jr. to Bach, P. D. Q., Jr. , and John D. Rockefeller, III to Rockefeller, John D., III . I reject this ordering as illogical, and instead use the inverted forms Bach, Jr., P. D. Q. and Rockefeller, III, John D. .



Nelson H. F. Beebe
12/30/1997