Why my style shows 'author et al' only for some in bibliography?

aptachaitanya
Can anybody help me why my style shows 'author et al' (it supposed to show all authors list instead) in the bibliography ONLY FOR A COUPLE of references, while all others are normal (with all authors list).

any wrong in database?
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  • fbennett
    Which style, which Zotero version, which system, some information about the references themselves ...
  • aptachaitanya
    style: Harvard reference style 1
    Zotero: 2.0
    OS: Win XP
    References (mall functioned): (they are supposed to show all the authors names)

    Anbu, P. et al., 2007. Optimization of extracellular keratinase production by poultry farm isolate Scopulariopsis brevicaulis. Bioresource technology, 98(6), 1298–1303.

    Anbu, P. et al., 2008. Extracellular keratinase from Trichophyton sp. HA-2 isolated from feather dumping soil. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 62(3), 287–292.
  • fbennett
    The copy of the Harvard 1 style file that I have here declares that if there are three names, they should be truncated with et al. The second article above has five authors (haven't checked the other one). So it looks like it's working as expected. If you want all of the authors listed, you can change the style to let it do that. You can find out more about how to do that for Zotero 2.0 styles here.
  • aptachaitanya
    Oh thank you very much. It worked. I edited 'et-al-min' value in bibliography. It worked.
    thank you very much.
  • fbennett
    Excellent! Glad to hear it's working for you.
  • aptachaitanya
    Oooh, am sorry I over looked. It doesnt work. this is the change I made (changed the value in the "et-al-min")
    <bibliography>
    <option name="hanging-indent" value="true"/>
    <option name="et-al-min" value="10"/>
    <option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
    What should I do. Please help me, I overlooked and thought it was working, but actually not, the references still show et al.
    Please help me out.
  • fbennett
    The use of et al. is controlled separately for citations and the bibliography. Try making the same change in the citation section.
  • adamsmith
    But at leas the original problem was about the bibliography.
    Are you testing this in the test panel?
    chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul
    Your style should work correctly, we'll need more detail to tell what's going wrong.
  • aptachaitanya
    ya, when I load the style to test, its showing 'No references selected in Zotero.' in the below pane.
    Whats wrong?
    And I am getting problem for only the above cited references, while all others with more than 4 references still have been shown correctly.
  • adamsmith
    edited February 7, 2011
    'No references selected in Zotero.'
    means just that - you need to select references in Zotero for the test panel to work - preferably those that aren't working correctly in your document.

    edit: Also, we're really guessing around here - it would be helpful if you just tried out some things on your own: Different citations styles, same citation style, different document, checking how many authors the paper has etc. - you can do all these things very quickly, it's much faster if you just get a sense of what's going on by playing around a bit than if we have to figure it out with very limited information.
  • aptachaitanya
    yes, I selected a reference and tried in test pane. Its showing correctly.
    Then I went into my document and tried refresh. Still like that.
    Then I removed those faulty citations and inserted it again, and inserted bibliography again.
    IT WORKED!!! This time no more overlooking. I checked twice. IT WORKS!!!
    Thank you guys, for patient sharing. Really sorry for eating up of your time.
    Thank you very much.
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