LaTeX forum ⇒ BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Removing comma after author and before et al.

[Tosulli]

Hello!
I'm having some trouble trying to remove the comma from before "et al" in my in-text citations using \parencite.
Currently, my citations look like (Smith, et al., 1980) but I would like them to read (Smith et al., 1980).

Many thanks!

My LaTeX looks something like:

\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=ext-authoryear-comp, giveninits, uniquename=init, maxbibnames=999,
urldate=long,
innamebeforetitle, articlein=false,
]{biblatex}


\DeclareDelimFormat*{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}
\DeclareDelimFormat[textcite]{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\addspace}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
andothers ={et\addabbrvspace al\adddot},
andmore ={et\addabbrvspace al\adddot},
}



\DeclareDelimFormat{andothersdelim}{\addcomma\space}


\renewcommand*{\compcitedelim}{\multicitedelim}


\makeatletter
\AtEveryCitekey{\global\undef\cbx@lastyear}
\makeatother

[Bartman]

Please try to create a minimal working example and mark multiline code with the appropriate tags.

If the comma is only to be removed from the citation, then you have to limit the change of andothersdelim to the bib context.

In addition, the second adaption of nameyeardelim is not needed, since its purpose is already fulfilled by the first.

The assignments to the localisation keys andothers and andmore are the default setting of the selected language. It can be found in the english.lbx file.

The change you are looking for as code:

\DeclareDelimFormat*{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}
%\DeclareDelimFormat[textcite]{nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\addspace}
\DeclareDelimFormat[bib]{andothersdelim}{\addcomma\space}

By the way, \space after \addcomma would be enough. See e.g. the default code of nametitledelim in section 3.12.2 "Context-sensitive Delimiters" of the biblatex manual.