How do I truncate the author list in my bibliography? (urgent help needed please!)

Rubina19
Hi! I have received comments on a review I submitted to the journal- Expert Opinion on Drug Safety. The editor wants me to truncate the author list to 3 authors followed by an et al, in case of 4 authors or more. In case of 3 or lesser authors, all names should be retained. I used the Vancouver style of referencing, for my bibliography.
Cannot figure out a way to truncate the author list as per this requirement.. Can someone please suggest a way around this problem? Is there some way I can do it using Zotero or will I have to manually edit each author list in my bibliography?
Look forward to a response! Thanks so much!
  • damnation
    You can edit the citation yourself by changin the et-al settings in line 324 to 4/3 (at the moment it's set at 7/6.

    Instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

    Make sure to change the name/ID etc. as explained, otherwise it will not show up.
  • Rubina19
    Hey! Thank you so much. Took me a little time to figure it out but this worked perfectly :)
    Can I ask you one more question please?

    They also want the reference page ranges to be in their shortest format (eg, 136-9). Is there a way to do that too?
    Thanks a ton in advance!
  • adamsmith
    That's page-range-format="minimal" in the first row of the style (i.e. in the style element)
  • Rubina19
    Hey thanks! I did check this. It shows as minimal in the style element. But the page ranges are still not uniformly minimal for all my citations. So I was wondering if there is some way to do this...
  • DWL-SDCA
    For the page ranges that are not satisfactory, look at how the pagination is entered in your Zotero records and verify that your entries are similar to the records where minimal format is proper.
  • bwiernik
    What exactly do you mean by not uniformly minimal? Can you give an example?
  • adamsmith
    IIRC, if the page range in Zotero is separated with en en-dash, it remains unchanged in the bibliography, so good chance that's going on (not sure that's an ideal choice, but there may be good reasons for it)
  • bwiernik
    I think that it's probably just a bug in the citeproc-js normalization code. @fbennett
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