Authors’ Names

Typical author names are:

 

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A.B.Smith

•	A.T.McPhail

•	J.J.MacDougall

•	C.J.O’Connor

•	P.Murray-Rust

•	F.de Bergevin

•	J.-P.Dubois

•	W.Van Riel

•	D.van der Helm

•	Yu.T.Struchkov

 

Authors’ names are stored exactly as given in the paper, with forenames abbreviated and stored as initials, e.g. F.Allen and F.H.Allen may both occur. The use of initials in queries can therefore result in a loss of relevant hits.

 

Some author names may include dynastic tags, e.g. S.S.Simons Junior, A.J.Arduengo III.

 

Authors’ names are stored in the CSD without umlauts, accents, etc. However, some journals express an umlaut by a following e; thus Müller, Sänger, etc., may sometimes appear as Mueller, Saenger, etc. in the CSD.

 

Chinese, Korean and Malaysian names are usually stored in full, e.g. Bing Bing Chang, Jung Mi Shin. Occasionally, however, Oriental names are recorded with initials, e.g. H.S.Kim. These variations are due to different journal conventions.

 

Names from non-Roman alphabets are not always transliterated in the same way in different papers, e.g. Belskii, Belsky, Belskij; query strings should be restricted to the root of the name, Belsk.

 

There is some inconsistency in the database in the handling of 2-letter initials, e.g. Yu.T.Struchkov might occasionally be stored as Y.T.Struchkov.

To Search:

•	Select the Author/Journal button in the Build Queries pane (see AUTHOR AND JOURNAL SEARCHES).