How to shorten many authors to "et al." when exporting bibtex?

hirotsugu.minowa · February 9, 2019

I want to post bibliography shorten authors (1st author only, others are shorten "et al") into pdf generated from latex.

I could get shorten a bibliographies from menu item "Create Bibliography from Items...".

However could not get .bib files shortened authors.

If the .bib cannot export, How export the .bib shorten authors into latex?

My procedure.
1. accessed http://editor.citationstyles.org.
2. Load IEEE in there.
3. Changed to `et-al-min="2" et-al-use-first="1"`.
4. Download above as "my_ieee.csl"
5. Imported "my_ieee.csl" into Zotero from "Cite">"Style".
6. [test] I could get bibliographies shortened authors via "Create Bibliography from Items..."
7. Export into bib file. but not shorten.

bwiernik · February 9, 2019

BibTeX doesn’t use CSL styles, so the citation style editor you link to is not relevant. You need to modify the BibTeX style you use in your LaTeX document. See https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/latex/BIBTEX.HTM or one of the many guides to working with BibTeX styles online.

You should not edit the .bib file exported by Zotero. Leave the full list of authors there and edit the citation style for your document.

emilianoeheyns · February 9, 2019

I agree fully with @bwiernik, and if you can't edit the style you can usually use bibtex macros to achieve the same effect. It is however technically possible to do in Zotero using a plugin: https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/1014

hirotsugu.minowa · February 20, 2019

Thanks