\citeasnoun produces too many names

Question

I'm using \citeasnoun from the harvard package with the econometrica bibstyle.

My problem is that one of my citation has lots of authors so I'd like it to only show Name et al. (200x).

I have not yet found a solution for this. I could change the whole bib entry, but I don't mind that all authors are given in the references at the end of the text.

Answer 1

to do the things mentioned in your question do the following:

open econometrica.bst (or better use a copy first for security reasons). Then search for "FUNCTION {format.lab.names}".

Now add the bolt part:

FUNCTION {format.lab.names} { 's := #1 'nameptr := s num.names$ 'numnames := numnames 'namesleft := numnames #3 > { s #1 "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}" format.name$ " et~al." * } { { namesleft #0 > } { s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ 't := nameptr #1 > { namesleft #1 > { ", " * t * } { numnames #2 > { "" * } 'skip$ if$ t "others" = { " et~al." * } { " and " * t * } if$ } if$ } 't if$ nameptr #1 + 'nameptr := namesleft #1 - 'namesleft := } while$ } if$ }

numnames #3 > is the key variable to adjust for the number of authors after which the et al. function is used, in my example the number of authors is 3. Don't forget to add the "if$ }" at the end.

Now save (probably update your Miktex FNDB) and us the bst file in your document!

See also here:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2009-05/msg00099.html

where the et. al function is forced in the bibliography!

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

According to section 2.4 of the harvard manual, the double-starred (!) macro version \citeasnoun** overrides the default citation style and always uses the abbreviated form. It seems, however, that this feature is available for the six styles "currently available within the harvard family" (manual, section 3.1), but not for the econometrica style which, according to the notes in econometrica.bst, was created with the help of makebst. The following example shows the forcing of the abbreviated citation form using the agsm style.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{harvard}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A. and Buthor, B. and Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\citeasnoun**{A01}

\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

Answer 3

To Remove the name in, e.g. "Baldwin, R. et al. 2003, p. 7", simply delete "{, f.}" in the following part:

numnames #3 > { s #1 "{vv~}{ll}{, jj}{, f.}" format.name$ " et~al." * }

Then it pops out Baldwin et al. 2003, p. 7