One thing I recently figured out is a sensible way to handle Dutch names (i.e., those that begin with den, van or similar particles. Traditionally, these particles are part of the cited name in author-date citations (e.g., den Dikken 2003, van Oostendorp 2009) but are ignored when alphabetizing (thus, van Oostendorp is alphabetized between Orgun & Sprouse and Otheguy, not between Vago and Vaux). This is not something handled automatically by tools like LaTeX and BibTeX, but it is relatively easy to annotate name particles like this so that they do the right thing.
First, place, at the top of your BibTeX file, the following:
@preamble{{\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}}}
Then, in the individual BibTeX entries, wrap the author field with this command like so:
author = {{\noopsort{Dikken}{den Dikken}}, Marcel},
This preserves the correct in-text author-date citations, but also gives the intended alphabetization in the bibliography.
Note of course that not all people with van (etc.) names in the Anglosphere treat the van as if it were a particle to be ignored; a few deliberately alphabetize their last name as if it begins with v.