EJN style: In text citation lists all author instead of et al.

joeyportnoy24

with some in-text citations, the zotero word plug-in lists all authors instead of writing "et al.".
I cannot see any systematics, but when one specific piece of literature shows that bug then it shows it for all citations of this literature in the whole document.
I am using the European Journal of Neuroscience style.

It happens when citing this paper for example:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/313?casa_token=m_iE-s1ryk0AAAAA:7la1iOvm9vygg4cZzEFfMwb5addxw2gWjgIqk0e711uobvUkqAtWfApzp26izOjlECnWnzulWv-N

damnation

Hi,
Just tested this in a document and can't reproduce this. It imports just fine from the link and cites equally fine in Word.

Can you take a fresh document and try those citations out?
How are you inserting the citations?

joeyportnoy24

Thanks damnation. The problem disappears when using a new empty document.
Must be a bug in our manuscript. I inserted the citation via the zotero plugin with shortcut ctrl+alt+a

For time reasons, we now just worked with suppressing the author and adding the author as a prefix.

damnation

I wouldn't do the author-in-prefix thing.
You can go through this to debug the document:
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/debugging_broken_documents

adamsmith

I would guess this is et al. disambiguation -- the style is written to list all authors of multi-author works up to the first different author to disambiguate them.

joeyportnoy24

thank you adamsmith!
this was the solution.

actually, in our case, there was no real disambuguation but an old zotero word plug-in citation of the same publication was created earlier by a different author with his zotero and zotero somehow kept it in the document as a reference.
Now, I took over. When I added citations of the same paper refering to my zotero library, zotero recognized them as two distinct references and the et al. started...
I just renewed all citations of the paper and the error disappeared.