Issue with et-al and disambiguation

I am using the Journal of Fish Diseases Citations Style

git://gist.github.com/1123739.git

It look like the disambiguation prevent the et-al to kick in on the second and subsequent citations. Only disambiguated citations are affected.


I'm using these two articles:
Kirk R.S., Kennedy C.R. & Lewis J.W. (2000a) Effect of salinity on hatching, survival and infectivity of Anguillicola crassus (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea) larvae. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 40, 211–218.
Kirk R.S., Lewis J.W. & Kennedy C.R. (2000b) Survival and transmission of Anguillicola crassus Kuwahara, Niimi & Itagaki, 1974 (Nematoda) in seawater eels. Parasitology 120, 289–295.
As you can see I've managed to get the style to add the a and b to the year.

The problem is not with the bibliography, but the in text citations. The first time they are cited, they show up properly: (Kirk, Kennedy & Lewis 2000a; Kirk, Lewis & Kennedy 2000b), but the second time the same thing shows up even though the style is set to shrink the authors to: first author et al. if there are 3 or more authors. All other articles work properly with this rule. It seems to only be a problem with having multiple articles by the same main author in the same year.

Is this a bug or an issue in the csl file?

Thanks

Pierre
  • If you don't want the subsequent citations to expand, remove the disambiguate-add-names="true" attribute from the citation element in the style. (That should be safe, if I grasp the style correctly -- since it has et-al-min="99" set for the initial references, it looks like including all names in the first reference, and strictly truncating in subsequent refs is what is intended.)
  • Thanks that solved the problem. It now works fine.
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