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		<title>Mbiro: Created page with &quot;The conventions for generating the labels of BibTeX entries are as follows:  * For up to four authors the label is obtained by the first three letters of the names of the authors…&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;The conventions for generating the labels of BibTeX entries are as follows:  * For up to four authors the label is obtained by the first three letters of the names of the authors…&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;The conventions for generating the labels of BibTeX entries are as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* For up to four authors the label is obtained by the first three letters of the names of the authors (the first is capitalized) the year of publication a colon and some string (acronym of conference or journal for papers and acronym of publisher for books).&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 @Article{BonBir2005:ijcc,&lt;br /&gt;
  author = {G. Bontempi and M. Birattari},&lt;br /&gt;
  title = {From linearization to lazy learning: A survey of&lt;br /&gt;
           divide-and-conquer techniques for nonlinear control},&lt;br /&gt;
  journal = IJCC,&lt;br /&gt;
  year = 2005,&lt;br /&gt;
  volume = 3,&lt;br /&gt;
  number = 1,&lt;br /&gt;
  pages = {56--73},&lt;br /&gt;
 }&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* If the authors are more than four, only the first three names are used for generating the label. After the three names the string ''-etal''  follows, and then year, colon, and acronym (as in the previous case). This prevents from generating long labels.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 @Article{BiaBirChi-etal2006:jmma,&lt;br /&gt;
  author = {L. Bianchi and M. Birattari and M. Chiarandini and&lt;br /&gt;
            M. Manfrin and M. Mastrolilli and L. Paquete and&lt;br /&gt;
            O. Rossi-Doria and T. Schiavinotto},&lt;br /&gt;
  title = {Hybrid metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem&lt;br /&gt;
           with stochastic demands},&lt;br /&gt;
  journal = JMMA,&lt;br /&gt;
  year = 2006,&lt;br /&gt;
  note = IP,&lt;br /&gt;
 }&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* There are some particular cases:&lt;br /&gt;
: The name of one author is shorter than three letters (e.g. Xu). In this case only the available letters are used.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 @Article{JinLeuWonXu2003:tsmcb,&lt;br /&gt;
  author = {H.-D. Jin and K.-S. Leung and M.-L. Wong and Z.-B. Xu},&lt;br /&gt;
  title = {An efficient self-organizing map designed by genetic&lt;br /&gt;
           algorithms for the traveling salesman problem},&lt;br /&gt;
  journal = SMCB,&lt;br /&gt;
  year = 2003,&lt;br /&gt;
  volume = 33,&lt;br /&gt;
  number = 6,&lt;br /&gt;
  pages = {877--887},&lt;br /&gt;
 }&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: The name of one author is composed (e.g. Di Caro). In this case only the first letter is capitalized:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 @InProceedings{BirDicDor2002:ants,&lt;br /&gt;
  author = {M. Birattari and G. {Di Caro} and M. Dorigo},&lt;br /&gt;
  title = {Toward the formal foundation of Ant Programming},&lt;br /&gt;
  booktitle = ANTS-III,&lt;br /&gt;
  pages = {188--201},&lt;br /&gt;
  year = 2002,&lt;br /&gt;
  editor = {M. Dorigo and G. {Di Caro} and M. Sampels},&lt;br /&gt;
  volume = 2463,&lt;br /&gt;
  series = LNCS,&lt;br /&gt;
  address = BERLIN,&lt;br /&gt;
  publisher = SV,&lt;br /&gt;
 }&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: If the name of the author contains an accented letter (e.g. StÃ¼tzle), the letter without the accent is used instead&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 @InProceedings{BirStuPaqVar2002:gecco,&lt;br /&gt;
  author = {M. Birattari and T. St\&amp;quot;utzle and L. Paquete and&lt;br /&gt;
            K. Varrentrapp},&lt;br /&gt;
  title = {A Racing Algorithm for Configuring Metaheuristics},&lt;br /&gt;
  booktitle = GECCO,&lt;br /&gt;
  pages = {11--18},&lt;br /&gt;
  year = 2002,&lt;br /&gt;
  editor = {W. B. Langdon and E. Cant\'u-Paz and K. Mathias and&lt;br /&gt;
           R. Roy and D. Davis and R. Poli and K. Balakrishnan and&lt;br /&gt;
           V. Honavar and G. Rudolph and J. Wegener and L. Bull and&lt;br /&gt;
           M. A. Potter and A. C. Schultz and J. F. Miller and&lt;br /&gt;
           E. Burke and N. Jonoska},&lt;br /&gt;
  address = SANFRANCISCO,&lt;br /&gt;
  publisher =   MK,&lt;br /&gt;
 }&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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