BibTeX: author-date citation treated like one word?

[Mander]

I am using LaTex to write a social science thesis, which means I am using a Harvard (author-date) citation style. I have a couple of citations that have two authors with long names. I can't figure out how to get these citations to wrap to the next line at the margin, like normal text.

For example, if I have a paragraph that carries on to the margin, like this, and want to put a citation into it that is sort of long (Jiminez Martinez and Valdez Diaz 2009:158-159), it should wrap at whatever word is at the end of the paragraph. However, when I have citations like this, the whole citation is treated as if it were a sinlge word instead of four or five. It makes the paragraph spacing look really wierd.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? There aren't any extra {} in the .bib file.

[Xnst]

Hi,

have you tried to add some hyphenation marks '\-' in the author's names in the .bib file. Like

Jim\-inez Mart\-inez, Val\-dez Diaz

I guess you get the idea. I do not know if this works, just a guess.

[samden]

Xnst, I think Mander is wanting the lines to wrap between the words, not hyphenate. I'm stumped unfortunately.

Mander, try posting this question at the LaTeX Community forum:
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/

[Mander]

I finally found the answer. In a nutshell, bibtex inserts non-breaking spaces into the .bbl file when the document is compiled. See here (http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2007-11/msg00301.html) and here (http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2007-11/msg00370.html) for details.

The important bit is to try enclosing the author's last name in curly brackets in the bibtex file. So, using my previous example:

Jiminez Martinez and Valdez Diaz 2009:158-159

@ARTICLE{martinez09citation,
author = {{Jim\'{i}nez Mar\'{i}inez}, Emiliano and {Valdez D\'{i}az}, Francisco},
title = {Citation},
journal = {Journal},
year = {2009},
volume = {13},
pages = {150-160},
}

It's worked for me so far, anyway!

[Mander]

On further research, while putting the names in curly brackets helps, my real problem was a conflict between the natbib and hyperref packages.

Use the "breaklinks" option in hyperref:
\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}

Then you can have hyperlinks *and* line breaks in your citations!