BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Italicize "et. al." in in-text Citation

[Ailicec]

I am using a numbered reference system using natbib.

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\usepackage[square, numbers, sort&compress]{natbib}

However, a problem I have is that when I ant to put in the details i.e. use \citet{xxxx}, I do not get the "et al." in italics. I need it to be in italics. Does anyone know how I can change it to italics?

Thank you
Cecilia

[cgnieder]

Which bibliography style are you using? Assuming it is »plainnat« I quote lockstep's answer to a similar answer TeX.sx:

How to typeset "et al." in italics: Copy the file plainnat.bst (located in the \bibtex\bst\natbib subdirectory of your TeX distribution) into your working directory and rename it to, say, myplainnat.bst. (Later, this file should be placed in your local TEXMF tree). In the renamed copy, search for the string " et~al." * (there should be four instances) and replace every instance with " \emph{et~al.}" *. In your .tex file, use \bibliographystyle{myplainnat}.

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