When to replace the first three authors in BibTeX?
Assuming that you want to print out just the first three authors (followed by “et al.”) whenever the entry has more than four (i.e., “at least five”) authors, you should replace the next 3 lines in the BibTeX function, viz., with the following 17 lines:
How are references abbreviated in BibTeX and AGSM?
With BibTeX and the harvard/AGSM style, some references (from authors who have multiple papers per year) aren’t abbreviated to “et al.”, with the addition of a, b, et cetera. For example, with the code attached below, I get: Only one paper is abbreviated to et al., the others not.
How many authors are in bibitem AA and BB?
Crucially, suppose the *total number* of authors differs — e.g., let bibitem `AA` have 3 authors and bibitem `BB` have 5 authors — and suppose further that `AA` and `BB` share the same first author (say, `XYZ`) *and* the same publication year (say, `2000`).
Which is the default backend for BibLaTeX?
Note the default backend for biblatex is biber. You may specify in the options backend=bibtex but you’ll lose some functionalities. You would like to print the full author list, thus use citations with star *, such as \\citet*, citep* under the package natbib.
When to use the others keyword in BibTeX?
The input conventions of BibTeX are rather strict; multiple authors must be separated by the and keyword: If you want only the first author and automatically add et al. in the bibliography, use the others keyword: et doesn’t want the “dot”. It is Latin and means and. al.
How to change the export style of BibTeX?
The best way is to modify the export style, that is edit the BibTeX Export style in Endnote, find Bibliograpy sub-panel, edit Author Lists and Templates as the means they appear, e.g. you can control the author list by editing the number of authors wish to appear and the others with et al.