Multiple authors, footnotes, and "et.al" not working

brazuca

Using a reference with multiple authors (e.g. "et.al") in a footnote breaks Zotero's ability to add the "et.al" in subsequent citations of that reference.

An example. The citation works fine in the text (with "et.al"). If, however, it is used in a footnote, it will *not* be compressed to "et.al", and all subsequent citations will also *not* be compressed. The citations before the footnote show up fine.

If the citation is first used in a footnote, it *will* show up fine, compressed with "et.al". However, all subsequent citations will *not* be as they should.

up until the first time it is used in a footnote. At that point, it stops w(where it also shows up fine). All subsequent citations of that reference _don't_ show using "et.al".

Definitelly a bug. Can anyone confirm?

fbennett

Can't say for sure, but this sounds like it might be a problem with your custom style. Can you post the CSL as a public gist, and post the link for it back here?

http://gist.github.com/

(EDIT: Just to be sure, I checked this in Zotero 2.0 with the OpenOffice plugin, and can't reproduce it on that platform, at least.)

brazuca

Here is the style.

http://gist.github.com/497211

I don't understand why anything in my style would affect the "et.al" code based on whether its on a footnote or not.

fbennett

Looks like it's not the use of a footnote, but just the fact that the source item is cited more than once. Running the style under Open Office, with an item with four authors, I'm getting one name + et al. for the first reference, and all four names for any subsequent reference, regardless of whether it occurs in a footnote or in the main text of the document.

This is expected behavior, given the following lines in the citation section, which are doing what they are intended to do as far as I can tell:
<option name="et-al-min" value="4"/>
<option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-min" value="6"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-use-first" value="1"/>
These tell the processor to reduce four or more names to one name, using et al., for the first reference to an item, but to reduce six or more names to one (i.e. to allow up to five names) on any subsequent reference.

If you want the same truncation behavior for all references, just remove the et-al-subsequent-min and et-al-use-first lines.

brazuca

Thanks! I never even considered that this was a possible feature. Learning something new every day....Gives me a reason to do a few other tweaks on the style, too.

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