BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ custom-bib "et al." or "et al"

[yannickwurm]

Hello,

I have been generally successfull in using the great custom-bib and natbib package to adapt my output for the journal Molecular Ecology.
However, there is one point where I am stuck:

I need in-text citations to be as follows:
for one author: (Smith 2004)
for two authors (Smith & Hyde 2004)
for more (Smith et al. 2004)
The problematic thing is the period at the end of "et al. ".

Using \setcitestyle{aysep={.}} I can make sure there is a period at the end of "et al".
However I will then always get a period before the year.

Is there another way I can redefine et al?

Thanks very much for your help,
Yannick

[gmedina]

Hi Yannick,

you can try editing the .bst file.