Harvard - just one reference is wrong

peegee355
Style: Cite Them Right 12th edition - Harvard
Zotero: 6.0.26
OS: MAC OSx
Microsoft Word

All my references work correctly when they have more than three names - apart from one which shows more than 3 authors in the tex, and in the references. I've tried removing it and adding it but same result. Any ideas?


Instead of
(Macleod et al., 2016)
I get
(MacLeod, Jelen, Prabhakar, Oehlberg, K. Siek, et al., 2016)


Bibliography,
MacLeod, Haley, Ben Jelen, Annu Prabhakar, Lora Oehlberg, Katie Siek, and Kay Connelly. ‘Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) for Researching Distributed Populations’. In Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Cancun, Mexico: ACM, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263322.
  • adamsmith
    Do you have more items by MacLeod et al in the bibliography?
  • peegee355
    Yes - which looks very weird . . .

    TEXT:
    (MacLeod, Jelen, Prabhakar, Oehlberg, K. A. Siek, et al., 2016; MacLeod, Jelen, Prabhakar, Oehlberg, K. Siek, et al., 2016; MacLeod, Bastin, et al., 2017; MacLeod, Jelen, et al., 2017)

    REFERENCES:
    MacLeod, H., Jelen, B., Prabhakar, A., Oehlberg, L., Siek, K., et al. (2016) ‘Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) for Researching Distributed Populations’, in Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Cancun, Mexico: ACM. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263322.
    MacLeod, H., Jelen, B., Prabhakar, A., Oehlberg, L., Siek, K.A., et al. (2016) ‘Lessons Learned from Conducting Group-Based Research on Facebook’, in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’16. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 804–815. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2851612.
    MacLeod, H., Jelen, B., et al. (2017) ‘A Guide to Using Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) for Researching Distributed Populations’, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology, 3(11), p. 152898. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.18-7-2017.152898.
    MacLeod, H., Bastin, G., et al. (2017) ‘Be Grateful You Don’t Have a Real Disease’, in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1660–1673. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025796.

  • peegee355
    Been doing some digging on this.

    By changing the capital "L" in MacLeod to a small "l" on some of that author's papers in my library then it can work! But change them all to a small "l" and it reverts to the fault.

    No idea what this means apart from there is a bug in there somewhere
  • damnation
    Could you copy and paste one of the "MacLeod"s to all of the entries and see if that works?
  • peegee355
    Tried adding a new paper with 6 random author names - that paper is ok. Changed the first author to MacLeod - that paper still ok. All other MacLeod papers still wrong.

    It's a repeatable error - I created a new Word document with just the MacLeod references and the error is still there.

    Let me know if you want me to do more

    Peter
  • adamsmith
    Right, this isn't an actual error, it's intended behavior to disambiguate different et al groups. Are we sure CiteThemRight doesn't want this? It's standard in more complex author-date styles like APA or Chicago Manual
  • peegee355
    Good grief, you are completely right.

    Thank you so much for that piece of insight!!!! Will go and relax now
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