Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:26:43 03/24/04
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On March 23, 2004 at 01:28:08, Leen Ammeraal wrote: >On March 22, 2004 at 22:11:08, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>In my thesis I want to refer to van der Meulen's work (that was published in >>Advances in Computer Chess 5). I have the following sentence fragment: >> >>"van der Meulen (1989) provides algorithms for..." (blah, blah). >> >>In English, it's pretty much compulsory to start the sentence with a capital >>letter, but I don't want to rearrange the sentence so that the name is not at >>the front. However, using "Van der Meulen" just makes me think that it's >>spelled incorrectly. >> >>Does anyone know the proper practice for this? >> >>Dave > >Van der Meulen is a Dutch name. Being Dutch myself, I think I have >learned the following rule (a long time ago): > >You can (and, actually you should) >write 'Van' instead of 'van' if the name is not preceded by the >first names, or beginletters of them. In other words: > >I saw Jan van der Meulen, (or I saw Jan Peter van der Meulen) but >I saw Van der Meulen. > >As for alphabetical ordering, the position should be M, >and (in thes examples) you should write > >Meulen, J. van der >or >Meulen, J. P. van der > >Leen Great, thanks! Dave
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