Calibre: Author with the word "and" in the name?

Question

Sometimes a book doesn't really have an explicit "author", but is rather authored by some group. So for example maybe there's a book about Croatian politics that's by "The Croatian Studies Institute". In Calibre, I'll put the group's name in the author field.

But if instead of Croatian politics, maybe it's about the politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it's by "The Bosnian and Herzegovinian Studies Institute". If I enter this in as the author, Calibre will convert it to "The Bosnian & Herzegovinian Studies Institute", and consider it to have two distinct authors, "The Bosnian" and "Herzegovinian Studies Institute".

Is there a way to tell Calibre, no, really, the one single author is named "The Bosnian and Herzegovinian Studies Institute"?

Answer 1

I use Calibre 2.20 and I find, that if you forego using the "Edit metadata" button and just click on the Author field in the main window and edit the name there, you get to keep the "and".

If you click on "Edit metadata" afterwards you will notice that the "Author sort" field has a red marking, however, it should work fine regardless.

When you do sort, it will sort using the word "The" as far as I can see. In other words it does not think any of the other words is the last name.

The folder will also be named correctly as you can see here in the screen shot.

Answer 2

You can change default behaviour in Preferences/Tweaks:
# Splitting multiple author names

The default setting is:
authors_split_regex = ',?\s+(and|with)\s+'

When you clear that, Calibre won't split author names.