et al. to et al

alizohaib7

Dear Colleagues

How can I remove the dot after et al. in intext citation. Currently, I am editing Springer Author Date Basics but for my University requirement I need to remove dot following et al
Currently it is like (Zohaib et al. 2017)
Required is (Zohaib et al 2017)
I am trying to edit it with Visual CSL editor
Help in this regard is needed. Thanks
Regards

adamsmith

If you add an "et al" node to "Names" at the left and then set "strip-periods" to true, that should work.

alizohaib7

Thanks @adamsmith for your quick response but I am unable to find strip-periods option in et al node. Within in line citations

Layout > Group > author-short (macro) > Names > Et-al

I can not see strip-periods options. Could you please elaborate more thanks

damnation

Just checked. It's not available for et-al.
In that case, do it via a locale section.
Insert this in the code after the info section and before the first macro. (if there is already a locale section, you can just add the main line).

<locale xml:lang="en">
<terms>
<term name="et-al">et al</term>
</terms>
</locale>

(adapt to your language as necessary. Here english "en" is assumed.)

bwiernik

@adamsmith That seems like an oversight in the CSL spec, no?

adamsmith

ah sorry, yes, that should probably be allowed in the spec -- makes things much simpler.

alizohaib7

Thanks, Everyone.