BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ When does bibtex go to "et al." in author list?

[sivertz]

Is there a way to control the number of authors in an author list before bibtex converts to "et al."? I can edit all the .bib files by hand, but I would like to know if there is a switch of some sort in the style file? Thanks.

[josephwright]

This depends on the BibTeX style you use. Some include a mechanism to vary it from LaTeX (for example my own achemso and rsc files, and IEEEtrans), others don't. Of course, you are okay if you use biblatex. Which style do you use?

[sivertz]

I use chapterbib.sty.

[josephwright]

No, that's a LaTeX package. I'm talking about BibTeX style: what do you have inside:

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\bibliographystyle{...}

[sivertz]

I have my own style file defined, unfortunately.
Do you know of anything that controls how many authors are listed in the bibliography before "et al." kicks in? Or any documentation that could point me in the right direction?

[josephwright]

I recently posted how to do this for a couple of BibTeX styles on comp.text.tex (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.tex ... 1f00011e79). As most of them are similar, you can probably use the same solution with only a little work. Unfortunately, "et al." is hard-coded into most styles.