diff --git a/source/back.tex b/source/back.tex
index f94ef43f35..6d52b7d4c1 100644
--- a/source/back.tex
+++ b/source/back.tex
@@ -52,13 +52,13 @@
   \doccite{The \Cpp{} Programming Language, second edition}, Chapter R\@.
   Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0-201-53992-6, copyright \copyright 1991 AT\&T
 \bibitem{kr}
-  Brian W.\ Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,
+  Brian W.\ Kernighan and Dennis M.\ Ritchie,
   \doccite{The C Programming Language}, Appendix A\@.
   Prentice-Hall, 1978, ISBN 0-13-110163-3, copyright \copyright 1978 AT\&T
 \bibitem{cpp-lib}
-  P.J.\ Plauger,
+  P.\,J.\ Plauger,
   \doccite{The Draft Standard \Cpp{} Library}.
-  Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-117003-1, copyright \copyright 1995 P.J.\ Plauger
+  Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-117003-1, copyright \copyright 1995 P.\,J.\ Plauger
 \bibitem{linalg-stable}
   J.\ Demmel, I.\ Dumitriu, and O.\ Holtz,
   \doccite{Fast linear algebra is stable},
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
   \doccite{Basic linear algebra subprograms for Fortran usage}.
   ACM Trans.\ Math.\ Soft., Vol.\ 5, pp.\ 308--323, 1979.
 \bibitem{blas2}
-  Jack J.\ Dongarra, Jeremy Du Croz, Sven Hammarling, and Richard J. Hanson,
+  Jack J.\ Dongarra, Jeremy Du Croz, Sven Hammarling, and Richard J.\ Hanson,
   \doccite{An Extended Set of FORTRAN Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms}.
   ACM Trans.\ Math.\ Soft., Vol.\ 14, No.\ 1, pp.\ 1--17, Mar.\ 1988.
 \bibitem{blas3}
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@
   ACM Trans.\ Math.\ Soft., Vol.\ 16, No.\ 1, pp.\ 1--17, Mar.\ 1990.
 \bibitem{lapack}
   E.\ Anderson, Z.\ Bai, C.\ Bischof, S.\ Blackford, J.\ Demmel, J.\ Dongarra,
-  J.\ Du Croz, A.\ Greenbaum, S.\ Hammarling, A.\ McKenney, D.\ Sorensen
+  J.\ Du Croz, A.\ Greenbaum, S.\ Hammarling, A.\ McKenney, and D.\ Sorensen,
   \doccite{LAPACK Users' Guide, Third Edition}.
   SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1999.
 \bibitem{blas-std}
-  L. Susan Blackford, Ames Demmel, Jack Dongarra, Iain Duff, Sven Hammarling,
+  L.\ Susan Blackford, James Demmel, Jack Dongarra, Iain Duff, Sven Hammarling,
   Greg Henry, Michael Heroux, Linda Kaufman, Andrew Lumbsdaine, Antoine Petitet,
-  Roldan Pozo, Karin Remington, R. Client Whaley
+  Roldan Pozo, Karin Remington, and R.\ Client Whaley,
   \doccite{An Updated Set of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS)}.
   ACM Trans.\ Math.\ Soft., Vol.\ 28, Issue 2, 2002.
 \end{thebibliography}