With the following example, I tried to get a label only made of from the first author using maxcitenames
. But unfortunately it seems not to work. Do I miss something?
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{smith1,
author={John Smith and Mike Someone},
title={The book with a very very very very very long title},
year={2005},
location={New York},
publisher={Publisher},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,%
backend=biber,
maxbibnames=99,
maxcitenames=1,
backref=true
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname}
\renewcommand*{\labelalphaothers}{}
\renewcommand*{\intitlepunct}{}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{in={}}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{in={}}
\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{last-first}
\begin{document}
\cite{smith1}
\printbibliography
\end{document}