Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ bibliography - suppressing "et al" in author lists

[templateuser]

Hi,


For my articles, I get the first author only followed by "et al" but I would prefer to list all authors.

Any suggestions?


Thanks!
...Phil

[Vel]

Hey Phil,

I assume you're talking about in-text citations rather than in the bibliography?

What are the biblatex options you are using?

Cheers,
Vel

[templateuser]

Hi Vel,


Actually, I want all authors listed in the bibliography.

I've found it helpful to make sure everyone gets credit spelled out.

I'm using the default arguments to biblatex and I have tried a few tweaks, but with no luck.


Many Thanks for any thoughts...
...Phil

[Vel]

Hi Phil,

I'm afraid I can't repeat this behavior. I took the template and changed the first reference in bibliography.bib to:

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@book{book_key,
    address = {City},
    publisher = {Publisher},
    author = {C. J. Hawthorn and K. P. Weber and R. E. Scholten},
    title = {Book title},
    year = {2012},
    volume = {3},
    series = {2},
    edition = {1},
    pages = {123--200},
    month = {January}
}

I then ran biber and pdflatex twice and the bibliography entry looks like:

[HWS12] C. J. Hawthorn, K. P. Weber, and R. E. Scholten. Book title. 1st edition. Volume 3. 2. City: Publisher, Jan. 2012, pages 123–200 (cited on page 6).

Are you sure your bibliography.bib file actually contains the full author list? Perhaps the software you are using to export it is adding the "et al" and not printing the full list of authors?

Cheers,
Vel

[templateuser]

Thanks, Vel

A clarification:
The following three author list works fine, but the five author list is consolidated into et al - which I am trying to prevent.

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@article{article_key2,
	address = {City},
	publisher = {Publisher},
	author = {Smith, James and George Washington and Abe Lincoln},
	title = {Article title},
	year = {2013},
	volume = {14},
	number = {6},
	pages = {1--8},
	month = {March}
}

@article{article_key3,
	address = {City},
	publisher = {Publisher},
	author = {Smith, James and George Washington and Abe Lincoln and John Adams and Andrew Jackson},
	title = {Article title},
	year = {2013},
	volume = {14},
	number = {6},
	pages = {1--8},
	month = {March}
}

Any thoughts would be appreciated !

Best regards...
...Phil

[templateuser]

Hi,


Found the solution: maxbibnames=9 (so there are 9 names in the bibs).

Put this in

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% Bibliography
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,sorting=nyt,sortcites=true,maxbibnames=9,autopunct=true,babel=hyphen,hyperref=true,abbreviate=false,backref=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

and it works!

Best regards...
...Phil

[Vel]

Hi Phil,

Excellent! I'm glad you found the fix and posted it here for anyone else who might have the sample problem.

Cheers,
Vel