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The code for reference is this

@article{matcontcl,
 title= {MATCONT and CL MATCONT},
 author = {A. Dhooge, W. Govaerts, Yu.A. Kuznetsov, W. Mestrom, A.M. Riet and  B.Sautois},
 year = {2006},
 journal = {Continuation toolboxes in matlab},
}

This is the error that follows

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX)
The top-level auxiliary file: PropuestaInvestigacion.aux
The style file: abbrv.bst
Database file #1: biblio.bib
Too many commas in name 1 of "A. Dhooge, W. Govaerts, Yu.A. Kuznetsov, W. Mestrom, A.M. Riet and B.Sautois" for entry matcontcl
while executing---line 1049 of file abbrv.bst
Too many commas in name 1 of "A. Dhooge, W. Govaerts, Yu.A. Kuznetsov, W. Mestrom, A.M. Riet and B.Sautois" for entry matcontcl
while executing---line 1049 of file abbrv.bst
Too many commas in name 1 of "A. Dhooge, W. Govaerts, Yu.A. Kuznetsov, W. Mestrom, A.M. Riet and B.Sautois" for entry matcontcl
while executing---line 1090 of file abbrv.bst
Too many commas in name 1 of "A. Dhooge, W. Govaerts, Yu.A. Kuznetsov, W. Mestrom, A.M. Riet and B.Sautois" for entry matcontcl
while executing---line 1090 of file abbrv.bst
(There were 4 error messages)

How could I fix it?

Mico
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JuanMuñoz
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    Off-topic: The use of then entry type @article for the entry at hand isn't ideal. Changing the entry type to @misc, and changing the field name from journal to howpublished, would be a good idea. – Mico Dec 09 '16 at 06:53

1 Answers1

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Don't use , (comma) as the separator between authors in the author field. Instead, use the keyword and:

author = {A. Dhooge and W. Govaerts and Yu. A. Kuznetsov and 
          W. Mestrom and A. M. Riet and B. Sautois},

In the author field, the comma is to be used only if you want to change the ordering of given names and surnames. For instance, one could rewrite the preceding example as

author = {Dhooge, A. and Govaerts, W. and Kuznetsov, Yu. A. and 
          Mestrom, W. and Riet, A. M. and Sautois, B},

Do note, incidentally, that I've inserted spaces between the initials of the authors Kuznetsov and Riet.

Mico
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    Don't we have a duplicate for this? – Johannes_B Dec 09 '16 at 07:29
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    @Johannes_B - There have indeed been quite a few previous postings that raise the "too many commas" issue. However, those postings have tended to raise several points at a time, whereas the new posting is "clean" as it addresses just one issue. Anyway, I think I've now found a posting that may serve reasonably as a precedent. – Mico Dec 09 '16 at 08:32
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    We could also present this question, as it is clean, as the new dupe-original. – Johannes_B Dec 09 '16 at 09:06