Problems with "et al."

JuliaAPOLLON
Hi,

I am working on this style for quite some time and can't figure out how to change this:

(Zotero example)
"Accadia, T.; Acernese, F.;... Zhang, Z.(2012)."
I want to have it like this:
"Accadia, T.; Acernese, F.; Alshourbagy, M.; Zhang, Z. et al.(2012)."

To put this in words: In case of more than four autors I want "et al." to show up. I already compared it to other styles but couldn't figure it out. Also the "et-al-min" and "et-al-use-first" didn't work out.

Thanks for your help!
Best regards
J. W.
  • adamsmith
    the first example (which is the way APA requires entries to look) is called by et-al-use-last="true" If you take that out or set it to false you'll get what you want.
  • JuliaAPOLLON
    Thanks for your answer. I used to have this option as "false". I tried again but there's no change. If I set the option for the inline citations, it works just fine. I have no clue what's wrong in the style that those dots won't disappear...
    Do you have any ideas?
    Thanks again!
  • adamsmith
    I'd have to see the style (paste as a public gist to gist.github.com ). Also, how are you testing this? Remember if you modify a citation style you need to change to a different style and back for changes to take effect in an existing Word or LibreOffice document.
  • JuliaAPOLLON
    https://gist.github.com/1b793d6277aff5520da1.git
    here it is.

    Well, first it doesn't change in the visual editor and I'm testing it with entries in my Zotero library, so I create new bibliographies with that edited style.
    Does that help you?
  • adamsmith
    that style still has et-al-use-last="true" in the bibliography, line 397:
    https://gist.github.com/JuliaAPOLLON/1b793d6277aff5520da1#file-gistfile1-txt-L397
  • JuliaAPOLLON
    Now I finally got it.
    Thank you so much for your help!

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