temporarily make et al italic

malpers1 · 2024-10-21T12:00:24+00:00

Some users of the style file Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae want to change their style temporarily so et al is italic (not the style's default). I have tried to add code ( ) according to instructions on https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#et-al but my code fail to make et al italic. I have not made any other changes. Can you please help me what to do?

Malin Persson
SLU University Library, Sweden

damnation · 2024-10-21T12:03:19+00:00

Replace the author-short macro with this (the location of the et-al line is very important):

  <macro name="author-short">
    <names variable="author">
      <name form="short" and="symbol" initialize-with=". "/>
      <et-al font-style="italic"/>
      <substitute>
        <names variable="editor"/>
        <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
      </substitute>
    </names>
  </macro>

malpers1 · 2024-10-21T12:05:19+00:00

Thank you!
(I totally failed adding the code in my comment, sorry about that)

damnation · 2024-10-21T12:09:36+00:00

You'd need to write it like this: <code>asdf</code>