multiple authors

tg
It seems that the only way I can get multiple authors added to the citation is by doing this by hand. I can't imagine that this is the only way. I have tried ~6 different bibliographic styles and this seems to make no difference. Any suggestion?
  • RintzeRintze
    What exactly are you trying to achieve? Do you just want to show all authors in a citation: e.g. (Doe, Jackson, Smith, Dilbert & Wu, 2006). Or do you want to have multiple citations within the same set of brackets (Doe et al. 2006; Jackson 2004)?
  • tg
    yes -- I would like to have all the authors shown in the citation. As I said - so far it shows the first author and not the others so to include them all I had to do it manually. I can't believe that this is the only way to include them all.
  • RintzeRintze
    edited January 26, 2009
    It's just uncommon to list all authors in citations, and most styles don't. APA for instance only lists 5. If there are more authors, it uses "et al." and only shows the first author.

    To force a style to show all authors, you'll have to remove the line in the CSL that specifies that "et al." should be used in citations:

    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/csl_syntax_summary#citation_only_options

    Some info on editing CSL files can be found here:

    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3879/stupid-new-user-multiple-author-style-question/
  • tg
    thank you -- I will look into this. --
  • fbennett
    It's a different use case, but as fate would have it, one style (wouldn't you know it, it's Bluebook) requires the discretionary listing of all authors in the first footnote reference, when names important to the context of the citation would be obscured by et al. So (unfortunately) this remains an issue for the future.

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