BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Too many authors

[pazmush]

Hi

I have too many authors and all the bib styles I have used don't reduce them down to et al, is there a style that does this?

Thanks

[localghost]

I don't know which styles you tested. If not done done yet, you should give biblatex a try. It lets you control the appearance of your bibliography by LaTeX commands so that you don't have to dig into BibTeX syntax.


Thorsten

[pazmush]

I would like to try using biblatex, but right now I have to get a report done for tomorrow.

I've tried unsrt and ieeetr and plain. But i want it to be in the same order as unsrt..... I'm not sure if it is too big a deal I just want it to look a bit neater...

[localghost]

Where do you want the author list to be shortened? In the citations themselves or in the bibliography? And how have your citations and bibliography to appear in general?

[pazmush]

Hi

This is what they ook like now

[1] Edsger C. P. Smits, Simon G. J. Mathijssen, Paul a. van Hal, Sepas Setayesh,
Thomas C. T. Geuns, Kees a. H. a. Mutsaers, Eugenio Cantatore,
Harry J. Wondergem, Oliver Werzer, Roland Resel, Martijn Kemerink,
Stephan Kirchmeyer, Aziz M. Muzafarov, Sergei a. Ponomarenko, Bert
de Boer, Paul W. M. Blom, and Dago M. de Leeuw. Bottom-up organic
integrated circuits. Nature, 455(7215):956{959, October 2008.

which is fine, but is it possible to get the author name shortened to first author + et al?

[localghost]

From your information I assume that the citations in the document simply appear as numbers in brackets which represent the items in the bibliography. A translation to BibLaTeX is not so difficult then.

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\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{knuth84,
  author={Donald Ervin Knuth},
  title={The \TeX book},
  year={1984},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley}
}
@BOOK{lamport94,
  author={Leslie Lamport},
  title={\LaTeX\ - A Document Preparation System},
  note={User's Guide and Reference Manual},
  year={1994},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}
@BOOK{mitgoo04,
  author={Frank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens},
  title={The \LaTeX\ Companion},
  year={2004},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}
@BOOK{goomit07,
  author={Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Sebastian Rahtz and Denis Roegel and Herbert Voss},
  title={The \LaTeX\ Graphics Companion},
  year={2007},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\begin{document}
  \nocite{*}
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

I think you should be able to migrate your document since it is only about loading the package, shifting the \bibliography command for specifying the database to the preamble and using the \printbibliography command at the place where bibliography shall appear. Note that this might need shell escape enabled for the compiler (forum search). This is my only quick idea.

[pazmush]

If anyone is interested I found the IEEEtran bibliography style works well as you can choose to have et al on or off using some comands in the bib file. check out this.....

http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/liv ... _HOWTO.pdf