General ⇒ BibTex "et al." in body displays wrong

[mithras]

I have a BibTeX question. Let me first tell how I defined an article:

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@article{Amelin,
   Author = {Amelin, Y.  and Krot, A. N.  and Hutcheon, I. D.  and Ulyanov, A. A.},
   Title = {Lead Isotopic Ages of Chondrules and Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Inclusions},
   Journal = {Science},
   Year = {2002},
   Volume = {297},
   Number = {5587},
   Pages = {5} }

What do I want?
I expect a style similar to the following:

[Amelin et al.(2002)] Y. Amelin, A. N. Krot, I. D. Hutcheon, and A. A. Ulyanov. Lead isotopic ages of chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions. Science, 297(5587): 5, 2002.

In this case "[Amelin et al.(2002)]" is the piece which displays in the body of the document:

The solar system originated 4564.7 0.6 Ma [Amelin et al.(2002)] as a dusk cloud resulting [...]

What happens
If I have multiple authors, I get really strange results.

[Amelin et al.(2002)Amelin, Krot, Hutcheon, and Ulyanov] Y. Amelin, A. N. Krot, I. D. Hutcheon, and A. A. Ulyanov. Lead isotopic ages of chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions. Science, 297(5587):5, 2002.

And in the text:

The solar system originated 4564.7 0.6 Ma [Amelin et al.(2002)Amelin, Krot, Hutcheon, and Ulyanov] as a dusk cloud resulting [...]

I use the style abbrvnat. BibTeX recognise multiple authors and creates "et al.". Still all the names of the authors are mentioned, while that shouldn't be. How can I change this strange behaviour? I looked at abbrvnat.bst, but can't get out of it. Can somebody help me?

I think it's a problem beneath line 376 "output.bibitem" from abbrvnat.bst, but I'm not sure. Changing to abbrv wouldn't solve this problem...

[mithras]

*bump*
Nobody an idea how to solve this issue

[gmedina]

I was not able to reproduce the strange behaviour that you mentioned. I took your reference and created a biblio.bib file and used it in the following simple code:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}

As was noticed in \citep{Amelin},

As was noticed in \citet{Amelin},

As was noticed in \cite{Amelin},

\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}

and I obtained the attached bibliotest.pdf file. Please post a minimal working example clearly showing the undesired behaviour.

[mithras]

I was not able to reproduce the strange behaviour that you mentioned. I took your reference and created a biblio.bib file and used it in the following simple code:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}

As was noticed in \citep{Amelin},

As was noticed in \citet{Amelin},

As was noticed in \cite{Amelin},

\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}

and I obtained the attached bibliotest.pdf file. Please post a minimal working example clearly showing the undesired behaviour.

Thanks for you help, but finally I managed to solve this behavior.

She created the .bib file from a Windows application EndNote. This created sections like this:

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@article{key,
  name = {name},
  year = {year}
}

I changed it to:

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@article{key,
  name = "name",
  year = "year"
}

And BibTeX was able to display the citations normally