authors with aristocracic title

[Helmut Zibrowius]

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:48:29 GMT, Frank Licher wrote:

>When generating the list of cited literature, I stumbled over unclarity
>how to cite and alphabetize some few authors with aristocratic title. As
>there seems to be no guideline ....

The current use varies with the languages, as far as alphabetical lists 
of authors for bibliography are concerned. At least in German (von) and 
French (de) the most common particles are arranged after the family name
(Marenzeller, von; Blainville, de). Current use in Italian appears to be
different: Delle Chiaje, Della Croce, Di Geronimo, etc.
As for the Dutch, fellow polychaete worker Harry ten Hove told me that in 
bibliographies he prefers to figure as Hove, ten (with his geographic? not 
aristocratic? particle) behind.
I remember a South African author with a somewhat "complexe" (for 
outsiders) name of Dutch origin (now to be considered as Afrikaans) 
"alphabetically" listed in three different ways, including in his own 
publications - either he had not decided a standard way to handle his 
own name, or he was imposed the three different versions by different 
editors of journals.

As for the version to be used as the author's name following a species
name, it surely would be convenient to always use the name without
whatever particle (parcimony), but this would be occasionally in
contradiction with with above.

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