General ⇒ citing question/workaround needed

[dogsipod]

i am writing a paper and using several scientific artilces as refs. Many of the articles have several authors...like 10. I would like my cite to look like first three letters of authors name with the year. so for John Smith a paper in 2005 it would look like [Smi05]. I used the annotate style and for the most part this works well. It is customary to use et all instead of writing out all the authors names and only. This is giving me problems.
@article{Smi05,
atuhor={Smith, J. et all},
....

generates a cite that looks like ea05.

@article{Smi05,
atuhor={Smith, J. and et all},

generates a cite that looks like Sea05.

is there a way to add a second author such that the name is not involed in the cite? or has any one else come up with an et all work around. i tried the note option but it puts it at the end of the entry on the bibliography page and that won't work.

[Juanjo]

I would write the full list of authors in the bib file. Then, in the tex file, I would load the natbib package and use one of the citation commands defined there.