i have found many helpful answers to other question here, so i hope you can solve my problems as well. I'm currently writing my masters thesis and had to change to using biblatex, which brought a lot of problems along.
For me it looked like the solutions in biblatex – et al. beginning from second citation? would shorten several authors down to et al. after the second name, but it doesn't. I do always only get the first author and the year without the "et al."
I could only find other questions around here on changing the et al. into different languages or symbols, but not on creating it!
Here is my code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}
\usepackage[english, ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[backend=biber,
style=authoryear-comp,
bibstyle= authoryear,
citetracker=true,
maxnames=99,
maxcitenames=2,
sorting=nyt,
uniquelist=false,
natbib=true,
useprefix=true
]{biblatex}
\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
\addbibresource{literatur.bib}
\AtEveryCitekey{\ifciteseen{}{\defcounter{maxnames}{99}\clearfield{namehash}}}%
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}%
%
\let\oldmultinamedelim\multinamedelim %altes Trennzeichen speichern
\let\oldfinalnamedelim\finalnamedelim %altes Trennzeichen speichern
\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{~,\space} %
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{~\&\space} %
\AtBeginBibliography{%
\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\oldmultinamedelim}%
\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\oldfinalnamedelim}%
}
\begin{document}\selectlanguage{english}
The study of \textcite[][]{Behr} \\
They say \textcite[][]{Behr} \\
..substantial lack of understanding" \parencite[][]{Behr}
\printbibliography[title={References}]
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}\label{sec:ref}
\end{document}
with the article for literatur.bib:
@article{Behr,
author ={Behr, M. and Wachsmuth, I. and Post, T. and Lesh, R.},
title ={Order and {E}quivalence of {R}ational {N}umbers: {A} {C}linical {T}eaching {E}xperiment},
journal ={Journal for {R}esearch in {M}athematics {E}ducation},
volume ={15},
year ={1984},
pages ={323--341}
}
What comes out is: And as i just noticed there is another mistake: Why does it put spaces bevor the commas, isn't the ~ ment to prevent this? -> This was solved by deleting the ~.
Thank you for helping in advance.
maxnames=1, minnames=1
in your options of biblatex package?~
is an unbreakable space. And I get Behr et al. in the citations. Is your system up-to-date?