multiple authors instead of et al.
When the citation contains more than two authors, and should be cited as 'author et al.' within the text, Zotero is printing out all the authors. What can I do?
I have seen this problem posted before but don't understand the suggestions offered. I think I would need step by step instructions if there is something I need to change within the program set-up. Thanx.
I have seen this problem posted before but don't understand the suggestions offered. I think I would need step by step instructions if there is something I need to change within the program set-up. Thanx.
The one example I am looking at is three authors and the first is not cited again from a different article. If that is what you are asking. Some citations work correctly, others don't. Another problem is one was showing first initial though in the bibliography it is entered the same as any other.
Strange.
(1) if that article (by the same author) is cited more than once in the document, are you certain that it is cited from the exact same Zotero entry? Two cites to different entries with the same content will disambiguate in this way.
(2) Do you have "track changes" turned on in the word processor? This can have bad side effects on Zotero, and should normally be turned off.
(1) Does that reference appear with an extended author list in a fresh document; and
(2) When you open the reference for editing in the Classic View via the word processor plugin, is the "Edit Citation" mini-editor opened on the citation? (If so, close it.)
2) I don't know what you mean by mini-editor. This may be past what I can understand. I can send this along to the computer guru at school and see if he can answer your questions and get back to you. Though he has been confused by this Zotero for a while. I'll post again during the week.
I've run out of ideas, but we're probably missing something obvious. I have literally never heard of the processor arbitrarily extending the list of names, so it must be some rare peculiarity of your system or data. I assume you are using the latest version of Zotero (3.0.3)?
If it is not too much trouble, please export the affected item (right-click while hovering over the item in the center panel, select "Export selected item ...", select "Zotero RDF" as the export format, and save to file. Then open the saved file with your browser or a simple editor (Notepad will do, don't use Word), select all, copy and then paste the content to http://gist.github.com. After pasting, save the content as a "Public Gist" (there is a button for that on the site), and then post the URL from the address bar back here. We can then take a look at the data and see if there is anything unusual about it.
Or am I missing something?
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
even deals with this particular example. There is no need to be terrified by this just because there's no GUI.