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How to cite multiple authors without naming all them, but et. al?

TeX - LaTeX Asked on April 11, 2021

I want to cite multiple authors, but only name two of them in the document, because the others are not relevant in this context.

So how can I do this?

I basically just want to add "et al." at the end of the bibliography entry.

However, if I follow the best practices for biblatex and do this:

@online{exodusIssueHttpAnalysis,
    author = {Jan Friebertshäuser, {@U+039b} et~al.}, % EDIT: don't copy this, the comma is used wrong here!
    title = {Documentation does not state how to run the dns/http analysis},
    subtitle = {{Issue {$sharp$}45}},
    titleaddon = {Exodus-Privacy},
    organization = {GitHub},
    date = {2020-08-26},
    urldate = {2020-08-26},
    language = {english},
    url = {https://github.com/Exodus-Privacy/exodus/issues/45},
}

It does get mixed up though and I end up with this: @U+039b et al. Jan Friebertshäuser

I know I could make it a "company name" and prevent BibLaTeX from interfering with it all, by placing them in {} brackets, but this is not how it should properly be done, I guess?
Especially, as I just want to add that there are more authors – all other things BibLaTeX can freely change, like the order of the authors or what it does etc.

One Answer

In the author field of a bibliographic entry, the keyword and must be used to separate individual authors. The author field knows of another keyword as well: others, which serves to trigger the routine that outputs "et al" in the citation callouts (if it hasn't already been triggered).

Hence, I believe that you should write the field as

author = {Jan Friebertshäuser and {@U+039b} and others},

The curly braces around @U+039b are probably not strictly necessary. However, they might guard against the + character being somehow misinterpreted.

Correct answer by Mico on April 11, 2021

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