How do you change the appearance of a reference list in overleaf

Question

I am making a document in overleaf, latex, but I am running in some problems with the reference list. I have a reference bib package called references.bib with the following input:

@article{Laplaud,
    author = "{Laplaud, V. and Levernier, N., Pineau, J. and San Roman, M. and Barbier, L. and Saez, P.J. and ... Heyvingh, J.}",
    year = {2020},
    title = {Pinching the cortex of live cells reveals thickness instabilities caused by Myosin II motors.},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    DOI = {10.1101/2020.09.28.316729}
}

The other articles that I want to cite are in the same format.

Then I added in the code:

\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\begin{document}
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}
   \printbibliography
\end{document}

To print the reference list.

But the problem is that the list is printed with the initials before the last name, and I want it to print the initials after the last name. How do I do this? Also how do I add multiple authors without having to put and in between all authors?

Thank you in advance!

EDIT

This is a link to an MWE that I created in overleaf to show the problem: https://www.overleaf.com/read/yxxdcvstjfqd (only viewing)

Answer 1

• To have the last name before the initials of the given name, you can define your own name format:

\DeclareNameFormat{default}{%
  \nameparts{#1}%
  \usebibmacro{name:family-given}
    {\namepartfamily}
    {\namepartgiveni}
    {\namepartprefix}
    {\namepartsuffix}%
  \usebibmacro{name:andothers}%
}

• you must not wrap the author field in "..." - this prevents biblatex from correctly formatting the list

• you must have an and between every author. That's the mandatory syntax of biblatex.

---

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{references.bib}
@article{Laplaud,
    author = {Laplaud, V. and Levernier, N. and Pineau, J. and San Roman, M. and Barbier, L. and Saez, P.J. and Heyvingh, J.},
    year = {2020},
    title = {Pinching the cortex of live cells reveals thickness instabilities caused by Myosin II motors.},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    DOI = {10.1101/2020.09.28.316729}
}
@article{Akhmetova,
    author = {Akhmetova, K.A. and Chesnokov, I.N. and Fedorova, S.A.},
    year = {2018},
    title = {Functional Characterization of Septin Complexes.},
    journal = {Mol Biol (Mosk)},
    volume = {52(2)},
    pages = {155-171},
    DOI = {10.1134/S0026893317050028}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\DeclareNameFormat{default}{%
  \nameparts{#1}%
  \usebibmacro{name:family-given}
    {\namepartfamily}
    {\namepartgiveni}
    {\namepartprefix}
    {\namepartsuffix}%
  \usebibmacro{name:andothers}%
}
\begin{document}
When citing something the bibliography will show \cite{Laplaud}
As you can see \cite{Laplaud} does it correctly, however \cite{Akhmetova} does not
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}
\printbibliography
\end{document}