preferred harvard style for an article with 200 authors

beeduino
I am helping with Zotero remotely for some writers and we faced the case when we have an article with more than 200 authors. Currently we only know that the Harvard (author-date) system of references should be used.
I am new to this referencing systems but I see that for this case different harvard options will be in range from mentioning the first author to list them all. Even reference guides from the journals I checked could not describe such an edge case. What would be the better way to do in this situation? Are there other forums fotr style related questions you could suggest?
On a more Zotero related side - I was thinking to install many harvard related styles at once into Zotero to play with. Is it possible to achieve with some procedures or scripts?
Thanks in advance,
Dmitry
  • damnation
    Citing a paper with 200 authors doesn't sound like an edge case to me.
    That's exactly why many styles have et-al settings.

    If you don't have any strict requirements apart from that it is an author-date style (that's what "Harvard" means), then knock yourself out with this list. 1034 styles: https://www.zotero.org/styles?format=author-date&dependent=0

    Many of them will shorten the bibliography to not include ALL authors.

    And to install them into Zotero, all you have to do is click on them.

    Otherwise, if you do have a style that you really like, adding the et-al settings is easy.
  • beeduino
    Thank you for clarifying. I checked different styles and I am evaluating little style correction route.

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