Repeat in author names when referring to three or more authors

Question

I am using the two-column format of the latex template provided by Springer( https://www.springer.com/gp/livingreviews/latex-templates ). To break longer citations I am using "breakcites" package. I use a bibtex file.

When I cite any paper with three or more authors (say author names are A,B,C with the publication year 2015), the citation comes out as:

This is the sample to show citation [A et al.(2015)A, B, and C] which has 3 authors, [M and N(2005)] hav- ing 2 authors, and [H(2010)] which has 1 author.

Here's the corresponding code snippet:

\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}          % twocolumn

\makeatletter
\def\cl@chapter{\@elt {theorem}}
\makeatother
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{moreverb}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{nicefrac}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{mathtools, cuted}
\captionsetup{compatibility = false}

\usepackage{hyperref} 
\hypersetup{backref=true,       
    pagebackref=true,               
    hyperindex=true,                
    colorlinks=true,                
    breaklinks=true,                
    urlcolor= black,                
    linkcolor= blue,                
    bookmarks=true,                 
    bookmarksopen=false,
    citecolor=black,
    linkcolor=black,
    filecolor=black,
    citecolor=blue,
    linkbordercolor=blue
}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage{breakcites}

\begin{document}
\title{TITLE OF THE ARTICLE}
\author{Tej Kumar}
\date{Received: date / Accepted: date}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
\label{intro}

This is the sample to show citation \cite{A2015} which has 3 authors, \cite{M2005} having 2 authors, and \cite{H2010} which has 1 author.

% BibTeX users please use one of
%\bibliographystyle{unsrt}  
\bibliographystyle{spbasic}      % basic style, author-year citations
%\bibliographystyle{spmpsci}      % mathematics and physical sciences
%\bibliographystyle{spphys}       % APS-like style for physics
\bibliography{tempBIB}   % name your BibTeX data base

\end{document}
% end of file template.tex

and the BIB file:

@article{A2015,
abstract = {XYZ.},
author = {A and B and C},
doi = {DOI},
isbn = {1234},
issn = {5789},
journal = {someJournal3},
keywords = {keywords},
number = {1-2},
pages = {100--110},
publisher = {somePublisher3},
title = {{someTitle3}},
url = {someUrl},
volume = {1},
year = {2015}
}
@article{H2010,
abstract = {XYZ.},
author = {H},
doi = {DOI},
isbn = {1234},
issn = {5789},
journal = {someJourna2l},
keywords = {keywords},
number = {1-2},
pages = {100--110},
publisher = {somePublisher2},
title = {{someTitle2}},
url = {someUrl},
volume = {1},
year = {2010}
}
@article{M2005,
abstract = {XYZ.},
author = {M and N},
doi = {DOI},
isbn = {1234},
issn = {5789},
journal = {someJournal1},
keywords = {keywords},
number = {1-2},
pages = {100--110},
publisher = {somePublisher1},
title = {{someTitle1}},
url = {someUrl},
volume = {1},
year = {2005}
}

The output desired is the following: This is the sample to show citation [A et al.(2015)] which has 3 authors, [M and N(2005)] hav- ing 2 authors, and [H(2010)] which has 1 author.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I was also having the same issue and as per the comment, I used \usepackage{natbib} at the beginning of the document.
The issue was resolved.