[SOLVED] Bibtex authors appearing as dashed lines in references when using bookdown and pandoc

Bibtex authors appearing as dashed lines in references when using bookdown and pandoc

I'm generating a reference section using Rmarkdown, bookdown and pandoc. I have a reference section with 6 entries. One of the entries does not have the author list, and instead appears as:

———. 2004. “Multimodel Inference.” Sociological Methods & Research 33 (2). SAGE Publications: 261–304. doi:10.1177/0049124104268644.

The bibtex entry of this looks as follows:

@article{burnham2004,
    author = {Burnham, Kenneth P. and Anderson, David R.},
    day = {01},
    doi = {10.1177/0049124104268644},
    issn = {0049-1241},
    journal = {Sociological Methods \& Research},
    keywords = {mdb-article-2017-06},
    month = nov,
    number = {2},
    pages = {261--304},
    posted-at = {2017-06-05 22:18:23},
    priority = {2},
    publisher = {SAGE Publications},
    title = {Multimodel Inference},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124104268644},
    volume = {33},
    year = {2004}
}

As far as I can tell this bibtex entry is correct, what is causing the author list not to be shown?

Solution

Dashed lines means that the author(s) of this entry is the same as the previous entry (example), hence omitted. That is the default behavior of pandoc and pandoc-citeproc when the output format is HTML. If you do not want this behavior, you need to provide your own citation style (via csl in YAML or the --csl argument). See http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#citations for more information.