aahhhhh! Solution tested and verified.
Thanks so much for your help!

First let me say that bibbase is a wonderful tool!

The bug described here is related to the ordering of Author initials problem that I posted elsewhere. My understanding of the problem is the following: Most of the users so far seem to be from computer science backgrounds and use particular reference databases that output bibtex with author name format First Last, i.e.

author={John A Smith and Joe C Punchcard}

and bibbase works splendidly when this is the input bibtex format giving output

Smith, J A; Punchcard, J C

However, there are a number of major scientific services, such as ISI Web of Science (one of the most widely used searchable databases) that output bibtex with author format Last, First, with and separation, i.e.

author={Smith, John A and Punchcard, Joe C}

For this second format bibbase does not work. It interprets the comma separated initials as a separate Author, and also reverses the display of initials to give output

Smith; A J; Punchcard; C J

Is it possible to support input with bibtex author format Last, First with and separation? Presumably the algorithm could branch on the existence of commas, and then run a script to reverse the order, and then pass the result into standard bibbase...

I predict that this would widen the uptake of bibbase by the scientific community enormously.

I note that the output of Scopus would be much harder to accommodate as they use a rather ambiguous format that lacks the and separation:

author={Smith, John A, Punchcard, Joe C}

Presumably this would make a complete mess of bibbase output.

Thanks so much for your consideration!

Just to be clear, here is the iframe output embedded in my page, with the bibtex shown. From other examples I have seen via bibles.org, this should be parsed correctly, but I doesn't seem to resolve in the standard way. I am stumped as to why it would treat initials as separate authors, and reverse the order in which they are displayed. The problem only seems to occur for multiple initial listings, i.e. Baillie, D looks fine, but the final author P. B. Blakie has been split up into two authors Blakie, and B, P

I think this would be a great feature as it is a single universal identifier. It is more reliable that the paper url, which may or may not be present in the article metadata. It seems to be standard practice now that all new articles have a doi, and many journals are adding them retroactively.

For example

http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.033409

right under the abstract.

If I do an ISI Web of Science search, for example, and output the article entries in bibtex, I find that they all have a doi, but they don't have a url. So resolving the doi as the article link would solve a lot of problems for me!

It also seems to treat the initials as separate authors. In the example given above, when the author grouping is used in display options, the author

A, S

is displayed, as well as a separate group of publications for the author

Bradley