Different et-al numbers for publication types

adamsmith
The NLM style calls for Books to be et al. after the third author, for Journal Articles after the 10th.
Am I correct that's not currently possible? Will it be in csl 1.0?
  • bdarcus
    No, and no. That's a pretty unreasonable request, after all ;-).

    Is this really a practical problem? How often does a book have more than even two authors?
  • adamsmith
    I agree its unreasonable - but it's NLM and I'd guess it would be nice to be able to accommodate the major styles correctly.

    I have no idea if it's a practical problem - but since it also applies to edited volumes I could see it happening (I have one book with four editors that I know of - though plenty with three) - but we''d have to hear from medical and related scholars on that. As my professional association doesn't have unreasonable style guidelines :-)
  • fbennett
    @adamsmith: I can see the editorial reason for this design, although I can't speak for CSL on the question of whether it will be addressed after 1.0 (Bruce has already answered for the current release). To clarify the use case, though, is this discriminant behavior required only in the bibliography, or in both bib and citations?
  • adamsmith
    edited September 14, 2009
    oops sorry, my bad.
    While that used to be the rule they changed it - I had been looking at outdated instructions. Now they leave it to journals to pick a cut-off for et al.
  • fbennett
    I'll play Greek Chorus to the thread here, and say that I can see the editorial reason for doing that as well. ;)

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