CSL Style - Bibliography and et al

julianhopkins

Hi,

For entries with four or more authors, the Berghahn style I'm working on needs to only show the first name

I used the information here (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/29125/problems-with-intext-citation-and-et-al/) to adapt the in-text citations. This worked.

I tried to use the same logic for the bibliography (I set the et-al-min to 4, and et-al-use-first to 1), but it doesn't work, and I get this result:

Ferrari, J., S. Keane, R. Wolfe, et al. 1998. The antecedents and consequences of academic excuse-making: Examining Individual Differences in Procrastination. Research in Higher Education, 39(2), 199–215.

instead of what it should be:

Ferrari, J., et al. 1998. The antecedents and consequences of academic excuse-making: Examining Individual Differences in Procrastination. Research in Higher Education, 39(2), 199–215.

The code is here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2165e951747ef83516cc

Thanks for any help.

adamsmith

delete et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="3" from line 34

julianhopkins

Thank you once again for your excellent and timely help. I feel a bit embarassed to keep asking questions, but I have not found a basic resource that helps me to work out these things myself.

adamsmith

no problem - the full specifications are here:
http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html
but it's hard to find the info you need if you don't know what to look for & we're happy to help.
Remember that we're always happy for finished styles to be contributed to the CSL repository:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

julianhopkins

Thanks, I will upload it when I'm done.