[wplug] Bibtex question

[Doug Green]

No, I just want it in the bibliography (in the references). I don't  
want a run-on list of authors when there are like 20 authors of a  
paper... how do I do that?

Thanks!
Doug

On Dec 22, 2003, at 10:59 AM, John Harrold wrote:

> Sometime in December Doug Green assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
> | Hi all-
> | Very brief bibtex question: how do I generate "et al" when I have too
> | many authors to list? Bibtex does funky things with the arrangement  
> of
> | character if you just write the author entry as "Author, Name et  
> al"...
> | what is the correct way to do this? Any suggestions? Thanks in  
> advance!
> | Doug Green
>
> clarification question. do you want the etal thing in the text of the
> document, or do you want it at the end in the list of references?
>
> by in the text i mean something like:
>
>   as clearly shown by other authors (mendoza et al. 1990), the goat
>   projectile system has many advantages.
>
>
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