BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ custom-bib | Custom Bibliography Style not applied

[asfarley]

I'm trying to use a custom-bib bibliography style but it looks like the generated citation style is not being applied to the in-body citations.

I want in-text citations with three or more authors to use "et al." after the first author for papers with three or more authors. Ex I want [Brockfeld, Gartner, Sohr & Wagner 2008] to appear as [Brockfeld, et. al 2008] but this is not happening.

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\documentclass{article}

%citation style
\usepackage{harvard}
\renewcommand{\harvardurl}{URL:\url}
%\usepackage{natbib}

%Citation parenthesis option
\harvardparenthesis{square}

\begin{document}

Citing a paper with four authors:  ~\cite{Brockfeld_Gartner_Sohr_Wagner_Board_2008} and another: ~\cite{Levine_et_al._2004}. A paper with three authors: ~\cite{Farhi_et_al._2011}. \\

\bibliographystyle{srlstyle}
\bibliography{bibliography}

\end{document}

I'm fairly sure that I chose the correct options using makebst but I am not sure how to verify this without trying to read the generated style file itself. A full MWE is attached.

Does anyone know why my style is not being applied?


Thanks,
Alex

[asfarley]

The problem is solved. The style displays all authors for the initial citation and switches to "et al." for subsequent citations. Now to figure out how to prevent this from happening.

Update:
The fix is to add \citationmode{abbr}. I got this from the harvard manual.