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So the issue I have is that, when I use

@article{SK2,   
author = {N. Bansal, H. Jiang, R. Meka},   
year = {1997},   
title = {Smoothed Analysis of the Koml\'os Conjecture},   
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},   
volume = {94},   
pages = {14614 - 14619}   
}

It shows up and everything is fine. The problem is that I need the authors to include a few more.

Hence when I change the code to

@article{SK2,   
author = {N. Bansal, H. Jiang, R. Meka, S. Singla, M. Sinha.},   
year = {1997},   
title = {Smoothed Analysis of the Koml\'os Conjecture},   
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},   
volume = {94},   
pages = {14614 - 14619}   
}

BibTeX stops working and issues the error message

Too many commas in name 1 of "N. Bansal, H. Jiang, R. Meka, S. Singla, M. Sinha." for entry SK2.

I don't understand why a few more characters make a difference.

How do I fix this?

Mico
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    The is not the correct syntax for authors, instead of commas use the word and between each and remove the . at the end. and is a part of the bibtex data format, and then up to the style used (either in bibtex or biblatex) to format it. – daleif Jan 12 '23 at 13:13
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    Thus the correct is author = {N. Bansal and H. Jiang and R. Meka and S. Singla and M. Sinha}, – daleif Jan 12 '23 at 13:14
  • Welcome to TeX.SE! – Mensch Jan 12 '23 at 13:17
  • Off-topic: You should replace Koml\'os with {Koml\'os} in order to prevent BibTeX from converting the word to all-lowercase. – Mico Jan 12 '23 at 15:12
  • You wrote that "everything is fine" if author = {N. Bansal, H. Jiang, R. Meka}. I strongly doubt that. I suspect that BibTeX is rendering the author component of the entry at hand as "R. Meka N. Bansal, H. Jiang", or something similar. This happens because, according to BibTeX's syntax rules for parsing author names, N. Bansal, H. Jiang, R. Meka is interpreted as a single author whose surname is N. Bansal (not Bansal), whose first or given names are "R." and "Meka", and whose "junior" name component could be "H. Jiang" [!]. Moral of the story? Learn how to use the keyword and. – Mico Jan 12 '23 at 15:27

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