Harvard style omission of subsequent authors

ther

The Harvard style produces a bibliography with the omission of the authors:

author1 a., a.b, yyyy.

A2 should have appeared as

author2, a,...

Also in the body text there is no application of the term 'et al.' for multiple authors. How to solve please?

fbennett

Which version of Zotero are you using? (Also, it's not clear what you mean by "omitting names"; are individual names going missing, or entire references?)

ther

Version 209. If a reference contains:

a.b. authorsurname1, c. author2, d.e. author3

The bibliography appears as:

a.b. authorsurname1, c.a, yyyy

The text body shows

... (a.b. authorsurname1, yyyy) ...

The requirements are:

... (authorsurname1 et al., yyyy) ....

authorsurname1, a.b., author2, c., author3, d.e.,

adamsmith

Please use real references - this is really hard to read and understand.
This is Harvard 1, right? Either you have a corrupted version of the style, or you're data isn't correct - e.g. you have the other authors listed as "contributors". This comes right out of Harvard 1 for me.

(Acemoglu et al. 2010)

Acemoglu, D., Egorov, G. & Sonin, K., 2010. A Political Theory of Populism. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1703342 [Accessed January 14, 2011].

The fact that you'd have initials in the citation is either because you have the author input as a single field (i.e. Daron Acemoglu instead of Acemogu, Daron) or because of this
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

ther

The original data is from a bibtex file used successfully with latex. Zotero is being used with oo writer, where the original bibtex file was imported. Authors (nor any other bibtex field) have not been changed, they all appear within the author bibtex field entry 'author'. For example:

...
author="firstname1 surname1 and firstname2 surname2 and firstname3 surname3",
...

adamsmith

That's likely the problem, then. You can check how this looks in Zotero (please always look at the data in Zotero before asking about citation problems), but I believe the BibTex import for Zotero expects
author="Smith, Adam" rather than author="Adam Smith" and so it doesn't import this correctly.

The BibTex experts will have to weigh in on the specifics of this - if there is a reason for the current behavior, if it can be fixed etc. In any case, this is an import and not a citation style issue.

Edit: I'd recommend confirming that the data is indeed incorrect in Zotero and then starting a new thread in the Import/Export section. Also, again, please use real names in the citations - I'm sure these firstname author1 formats are well intentioned, but it takes much, much longer too read and understand, especially if you don't capitalize.