General ⇒ 3 authors reference

[mihbut]

Hi!

I have to submit in few days a thesis for which a certain style of referencing is required. I have succeeded in fulfilling most of the requirements by making my own bst-file, however I still have a problem that I cannot solve: if a paper has 3 authors I need that all of them are listed when I cite that paper, e.g. (Jones, James & Smith 2000). What I get now is (Jones et al. 2000), but I would like to have this kind of reference only if the paper has more than 3 authors. I probably need to change some things in the bst-file...
Any suggestion for solving this problem is highly appreciated.

MS

[Juanjo]

I assume that you load the natbib package. Use \citep for all your references, except those having three authors. For them, use \citep*.

[mihbut]

I was using natbib and \citep for all my references. I tried now with \citep* for 3 authors and it is what I needed.
Thanks a lot!
MS