Mingzhai,
As you have discovered the OpenOffice bibliographic facility does not
provide
any means to select or change the format of author names.
I can think of several options -
* Manually edit the author fields in your database to the format needed.
* write a small program to reformat the names in the database. This is tricky
as you have to deal with two part names such as 'John A van Aalst'.
* find a software utility that will reformat the names in the database. I
remember reading about software utilities that 'cleaned' bibtext
bibliographic databases. There is a program called bibclean but it does
this-
"Personal names in author and editor field values are normalized to the
form ``P. D. Q. Bach'', from ``P.D.Q. Bach'' and ``Bach, P.D.Q.''."
Which is not quite what you want. I have not found a better one.
I am sorry I can not be or more help. The Bibliographic Project is working on
building a better OpenOffice Bibliographic facility.
good luck
David
On Monday 05 June 2006 1:50 pm, you wrote:
> I used Jabref to export using opendocument spreadsheet.
> Then when I use openoffice to cite the references, the format of
> authors is not changable.
> I got something like the following:
> John A van Aalst and William Burmeister and Paul L Fox and Linda M Graham
> 2004. Alpha-tocopherol preserves endothelial cell migration in the presence
> of cell-oxidized low-density lipoprotein by inhibitingchanges in cell
> membrane fluidity. J Vasc Surg 39:229--23
>
>
> What I need is:
> Lastname, Firstinitial., xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> for example Fox, P.L., Burmeister, W., and Graham, L.M. 2004.
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Thanks a lot.
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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic
OpenOffice Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
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