{author-number} is about the number of authors displayed in bibliographies/citations for multi-author works. If you use this tag, add the appropriate tags specifying the bibliography packages and/or backend programs you use, e.g., {bibtex}, {natbib}, or {biblatex}.
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biblatex is ignoring maxcitenames
I am using the following line in my document:
\usepackage[citestyle=apa,maxcitenames=2,bibstyle=authoryear,doi=true,url=true]{biblatex}
However, biblatex ignores maxcitenames, and prints out every ...
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citestyle=authoryear, change delimiter [duplicate]
Using the authoryear style, I want to cite works of two authors as A & B and more as A, et al., while listing authors as a A, b B and c C in the bibliography. Also, the whole citation should be a ...
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votes
2answers
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Are maxnames or minnames legal options for printbibliography?
I haven't been doing much LaTeX'ing and just installed TeX live 2012 last night. Now one of my documentation projects stops compiling due to the following snippet:
\chapter{List of publications}
...
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votes
1answer
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maxnames in biber
I'm trying to set maxnames in my biber option, but it doesn't work.
I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong.
My MWE is:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,german]{scrartcl}
...
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0answers
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longnamesfirst in biblatex [duplicate]
I am preparing a manuscript with LaTeX and for the citations the journal has the following requirement for references with three authors:
On first citation use all authors' names and the year. ...
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votes
1answer
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How to tweak 3-5 authors citation with the biblatex-apa style?
One thing about the biblatex-apa style I could not get used to, is the 3-5 authors citation: if the authors number is between 3-5, all of them will be printed in citation.
e.g. Biblatex-apa style:
...
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0answers
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Limiting the number of authors that appear in the bibliography [duplicate]
I am using natbib bibliography style. Some references have multiple authors that take over a page to list in the bibliography. Is there a way to limit the number of authors?
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votes
3answers
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How to modify APA Biblatex style to look like “elsarticle-harv” style?
I have been using the \bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv} style for a long time, since I newly swtiched to biblatex and it is only for natbib, so how to modify the default biblatex style or ...
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votes
1answer
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BibTex/Natbib: References with exactly three authors require all authors on first occurence and first author et al on further occurences
I'm writing a paper for a journal (MNRAS, the UK Royal Astronomical society journal) which requires that when I cite any papers with exactly three authors, I need to give the full author list at the ...
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votes
1answer
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How to render a normal and compressed version of the bibliography in one document?
I use biblatex and biber for the bibliography and I came to the problem that I need a subset of the bibliography to be in verbose style (all authors for 5 references) and at another place in the ...
0
votes
1answer
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Biblatex mincitenames not respected with authoryear [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Set limit to one author when using “et al.” in biblatex
I am using biblatex to manage the bibliography of a large document.
Everything is working fine, but I have found ...
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1answer
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natbib, et al by more than one author
I've got some problems with my bibliography style
Code:
\usepackage[square]{natbib}
\usepackage[english,ngerman{babel}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Einleitung}
Text..... \citep{Marley2009}
...
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votes
1answer
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biblatex: Setting maxbibnames option truncates to first name + et al., not to the maxbibnames value
I'm using: biblatex 1.7.1; biber (0.9.6 I guess) and working on LyX on Kubuntu 12.04.
For example, I'm setting in my .bbx file the value to 6:
\ExecuteBibliographyOptions
{
maxbibnames = 6
}
...
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votes
2answers
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biblatex: How to set citation options per citation command?
In the alphabetic style, I am using maxcitenames=4 and minnames=3 as global options. However, when using \textcite instead of \cite, these settings are pretty unreasonable, and I want it to behave as ...
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votes
1answer
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Set limit to one author when using “et al.” in biblatex
In the header of my document I set the maximal author names to 2:
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, maxbibnames=9, maxcitenames=2, backend=biber]{biblatex}
Now, when I cite texts with two ...
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vote
2answers
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APA-Biblatex Problem with amount of authors
I've got a problem with the biblatex-apa version.
Here is the relevant part of my header:
\documentclass[
a4paper,
12pt,
headings=normal
bibtotoc,
pointlessnumbers
]{scrartcl}
...
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votes
2answers
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biblatex name format that recedes to 'et al.' immediately
I am having my biblatex defaults to switch to 'et al.' rather late (past three authors). Now I have occasions where the repeated mention of an author asks for a short form 'Author et al.', ...
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votes
2answers
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Biblatex-apa: No change of citation with three authors to “et al.” (“/u.a.” in german) after first citing the source
in my doc, biblatex-apa seems not to change citation-style to "et al." for a source with three authors after first citing that source, if there are other citations in between.
So, when citing the ...
5
votes
1answer
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author year style with biblatex
I have asked about a specific referencing style and was recommended to use biblatex.
I was given a nice answer
author order in plainnat
but then I would like to make minor changes:
The "et al." ...
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votes
1answer
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biblatex – et al. beginning from second citation?
Basically all I need to know is how I can use "et. al" beginning from the second citation of a source. I am using the following
\usepackage[
natbib=true,
style=authoryear
]{biblatex}
I need ...
7
votes
1answer
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Use et al. in biblatex custom style
I have been working on a custom biblatex style, for which I want the bibliography to display at most 2 authors, meaning that the entries should be either:
First (single author)
First & Second ...
3
votes
1answer
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Biblatex authoryear-icomp: maxnames not working or I don't get it
I have been fighting quite a while with the following problem (which might be related to some strange previous errors in my document):
I use authoryear-icomp with the following options and XeLaTeX ...
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vote
1answer
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How to personalize \citeauthor command
I'm writing thesis using tuned report class, biblatex and biber for bibliography.
bib file entries are generated by ScienceDirect export citation feature and style is czech-iso.
For referring to some ...
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votes
1answer
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Controlling abbreviation of author names list using natbib
I am using the natbib package with the aspr style.
The command \citep{key} prints "(Smith et al., 2011)" if the number of authors is more than 3. How can I change it so that it uses the "et al." ...
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votes
0answers
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Two questions about Classic Thesis [duplicate]
The first is that, although I like the fact that long citations are in the form J. Doe et al. in the chapters, I don't want it in the actual bibliography ; how can I do that?
The second is that the ...
6
votes
1answer
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Label only from first author
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}
...
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votes
2answers
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biblatex: Setting maxnames on individual entries
I'm using biblatex (with biber as backend). I use the global maxnames option to shorten author lists (with "et al."). However, I would like to create some exceptions to this rule for some specific ...
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votes
4answers
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BibTeX: How can I automatically reduce long author lists to “xxx et al.”?
I have several entries in my list of references that include of the order of 40 authors.
Is there a way to make bibtex automatically reduce these lists to e.g. the first name + "et al."?
I don't want ...
0
votes
1answer
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How do I truncate the author list and substitute et.al?
Can someone please tell me if there is a way to truncate more than 2 authors for a publication and substitute it by et al. instead? I am using bibtex.
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votes
1answer
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biblatex: Max names in alphabetic citation key
Is it possible to set the number of names to appear in a bibliography entry differently from the maximum number of names that appear in the citation key (using alphabetic style)?
For example,
...
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votes
1answer
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Inconsistent Author et al Behavior with LaTeX+BibTeX
I am having some issues while using BibTeX to cite papers in an article I am writing. The journal I am submitting to supplies their own *.bst and *.sty files that are supposed to format to the ...
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votes
1answer
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Biblatex: Have only one author in citation — multiple articles with same first author, different year
\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@article{author99,
title = {A fine title},
year = {1899},
author = {An Author and Another Bauthor and Yeta Cauthor},
journal = {Madness}
}
...
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votes
1answer
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biblatex: Set citation options on a cite-by-cite basis
Here's the deal: I have a biblatex bibliography with a prenote. The prenote contains a citation with a lot of authors. I want it to behave as if it were obeying maxnames=3. But I want my bibliography ...
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votes
3answers
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Two papers that abbreviate to the same Author et al (1999) in text
I have two citations like
@ARTICLE{Openshaw1999a,
author = {Openshaw, S. and Turton, I. and Macgill, J},
title = {Using the Geographical Analysis Machine to Analyze Limiting Long-term
...
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votes
4answers
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Bibtex Automatic replacement of 4+ authors with et al.
When copying bibtex entries from journal websites, they usually include a lot of information, and not all of it is necessary depending on the journal you are submitting the paper too.
Currently I ...
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votes
1answer
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How to make \citet* display full list of authors?
When I am using the natbib package with apalike bibliography style \citet* displays only an abbreviated list of authors, such as Lemarechal et al. (1995). How can I make it display a full list of ...
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votes
2answers
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biblatex: displaying all authors of multi-author works in the bibliography
I'm using the biblatex package to add citations and a bibliography to my LaTeX document. I've noticed that only the first author plus "et al." is displayed for works with more than three authors. ...
