Harvard cite them right- can you change authors to et al?

fothers365 · February 6, 2019

Hi,

I am in the UK and my masters requests 'cite them right'. They also however ask for multiple authors to be listed as et al, and the manager doesn't do that but lists each name.

Is there anyway I can change the settings so that it saves in the manner my institute wishes?

Thanks,
Lisa

damnation · February 6, 2019

The style is set to shorten the authors to et al. when there is 4 or more authors.
If you wanted to edit that you'd need to change the values in lines 260 or 277 of the style. These values set the et-al: et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="1".

If you make such a style, make sure to edit the filename, self-link and style ID (in lines 5+6). General instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step