Uniform printing of author list

[tobirolinew]

Under BibTeX, it is allowed to use two different forms of author list:

(1)

author = {M. Born and J. R. Oppenheimer}

and

(2) author = {Born, M. and Oppenheimer, J. R. }.

It would be useful to have an option which provides a standard form for printing the author list, say (1).

Another problem could be the abbreviation of the first names of the authors. Users would be thankful if BibTeX Tidy had such an option.

Thank you for considering these suggestions.

[FlamingTempura]

Apologies for delays in responding! Great suggestion.

I'm keen to add an option for formatting the authors list (which will also tackle #35).

[raphCode]

I am also interested in this feature (and want to give this issue a little bump :) )