[texhax] bibtex: Too many commas in name 1

[Robin Fairbairns]

> The following bibtex entry causes bibtex to tell me that:
> "Too many commas in name 1 of "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney,
> P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks" for entry Arridge89
> while executing---line 1090 of file plain.bst"
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Can't I have as many names as I like in the author
> field?
> 
> (VERSION: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.1)
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> and I use plain bibstyle and article documentclass)
> 
> bibtex entry that causes problem:
> 
> @Article{Arridge89,
>   author =      "S.R.~Arridge, S.R.~Grindrod, A.D.~Linney, P.S.~Tofts, D.~Wicks",
>   title =       "Use of greyscale voxel databases for improved shading and segmentation",
>   journal =     "Medical Informatics",
>   volume =      "14",  
>   number =      "2",
>   pages =       "157--171",
>   year =        "1989",
>   abstract =    "early lesion segmentation I"
> }

where you've put commas, you should use "and" -- a faq; see:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor