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Wrong bibtexkey is generated when first author uses BibTeX extended name format #4557

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JabRef version 4.3.1

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Have an entry in the database in which the first author name is written using the BibTeX extended name format, for example:
@InProceedings{Hasselt2016,
  author     = {family=Hasselt, given=Hado P., prefix=van useprefix=false and Guez, Arthur and Hessel, Matteo and Mnih, Volodymyr and Silver, David},
  title      = {Learning Values across Many Orders of Magnitude},
  booktitle  = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  date       = {2016},
  pages      = {4287--4295},
  url        = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6076-learning-values-across-many-orders-of-magnitude},
  urldate    = {2017-06-07}
}
  1. Under Options > Preferences > BibTeX key generator, use a key format that mentions the author name (for example, the default one [auth][year]);
  2. Use the Autogenerate BibTeX keys funcionality of JabRef.

Expected behavior: the generated bibtexkey would be something like Hasselt2016 or vanHasselt2016.

Actual behavior: the generated bibtexkey is actually 2016, ignoring the author's name.

Additional info: The BibTeX extended name format is somewhat described in section 3.8 of the Biber manual.

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