et al inconsistent
Hello,
For all in-text citations in my document, "et al." is shown after the first author when there are at least 3 authors on a paper (e.g. Smith et al.). There is one paper, though, where it shows the first two authors and then the "et al." (for a paper with 3 authors): "Smith, Miller, et al.).
Does anyone know where this inconsistency comes from? Thank you!
For all in-text citations in my document, "et al." is shown after the first author when there are at least 3 authors on a paper (e.g. Smith et al.). There is one paper, though, where it shows the first two authors and then the "et al." (for a paper with 3 authors): "Smith, Miller, et al.).
Does anyone know where this inconsistency comes from? Thank you!
Smith, Miller, et al. 2020, Smith, Meyer, et al. 2020 instead of the somewhat misleading
Smith et al. 2020a, b (which suggests the same author group).
This can be turned off in the automated style, but it's in there by design and required in many style manuals.
What would I have to change in the code if I wanted
(Smith et al., 2023a) and (Smith et al., 2023b)
for the two papers with the same first author but different co-authors?
a: Smith, Miller, Carpenter, 2023
b: Smith, Brewer. Fisher, 2023
disambiguate-add-names="true"
General instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step