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Okay, a bit late back, but anyway.

Here is an example that works, where I get the reference as [Schmid et al., 2020]

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage[a4paper, total={6.5in, 9in}]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage{shapepar}
\usepackage ...

Hi!

I am new here on the forum, I searched but I may have missed if this problem has been discussed already.

Sometimes, when I cite a paper, either in my own LaTeX template or using one of the journal templates I get citations in the text like:

"and BepiColombo data. [Schmid, Plaschke, Narita ...