Having recently had to correct a lot of author lists to BibTeX-compliant list format, I wrote a little Javascript to help me do the task:
This would convert the above author names to be "Hurt, Jessica A. and Thibodeau, Stacey A. and Hirsh, Andrew S. ". I found this especially useful for those Nature papers with 10+ authors :)

This would convert the above author names to be "Hurt, Jessica A. and Thibodeau, Stacey A. and Hirsh, Andrew S. ". I found this especially useful for those Nature papers with 10+ authors :)