From: <go...@pu...> - 2006-12-14 10:09:43
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> This is a very basic one, yet I can't seem to figure it out. I am using the > graphical interface to create my bibliography files, and I can't figure out > how to force "et al." onto it. For example, I am citing a collaboration > paper with 50 authors, I don't want to list all of them in the "Author" > field, I am only bothered to put the first couple, and then et al. to > replace the rest. Yet if I put it in the same line as the last author I am > listing, it will see it as te part of the person's name and it will not be > seen when cited, and if I put it in the new line, it will understand it is a > new author. Can anyone tell me how to go about this one? It looks like the standard bibtex way is to have a last author called "others", so your bibtex entry should read authors = {blah, blah and foo. foo and others} You should be able to type "others" as the last author. Unfortunately, I noticed that when reloading such a file, the last author appear as "others, others". This won't change your file unless you modify the field, so it's safe while I fix the bug itself. Frederic |