Bibliography .. inserting et al. when it should list all the multiple authors

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A lot of styles in my hands seem to create bibliography (not internal citation) entries with "et al." when there are a number of authors. I cannot think that et al. truncation in "an end of paper" bibliography seems like a standard format I see much. I have confirmed that the author list is actually full/correct, so somehow Zotero is truncating this.

Is there any place to force it to list all authors or an alternative style that looks like "Chicago (author date)" that does not do that strange truncation thing? Is there a preference or about:config tweak? Is this not default behavior, might there be a local machine bug in my setup? (using Windows xp, firefox 3)

I cannot imagine this has not come up before or this requires a handcrafted style, but did multiple searches in the forum and still did not find anything relevant. but I apologize if this is an old issue.

Any thoughts or help appreciated! Great tool, except for this odd quirk!
  • erazlogo
    edited August 11, 2008
    Et al. formatting in Chicago was indeed incorrect. It now follows the American Naturalist guidelines outlined in CMS 17.30:

    "To avoid an unwieldy string of names, and with apologies to those authors whose names are sacrificed, Chicago recommends the policy followed by the American Naturalist (see bibliog. 5): for references with ten authors or fewer, all should be listed; for references with eleven or more, only the first seven should be listed, followed by “et al.” (Where space is limited, the policy of the American Medical Association may be followed: up to six authors’ names are listed; if there are more than six, only the first three are listed, followed by “et al.”)"

    These changes will be available in the next public release of Zotero, or you can install from the Dev Styles section of the Zotero Style Repository.
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