BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Biblatex et al

[Ross Ahmed]

I need to cite publications that have >2 authors using et al. I'm using biblatex.

My text is appearing as follows: 'some text (Anderson 1999) and more text (Armenta & Whittingham 2008)'

However I need my text to appear as follows: 'some text (Anderson 1999) and more text (Armenta et al. 2008)'.

My bib file is as follows:

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@ARTICLE{AnderssonS1999,
  author = {Andersson, S.},
  title = {Morphology of UV reflectance in a whistling-thrush: implications
    for the study of structural colour signalling in birds},
  journal = {Journal of Avian Biology},
  year = {1999},
  volume = {30:},
  pages = {193-204}
}

@ARTICLE{armenta2008,
  author = {Armenta, J.K., Dunn, P.O. \and Whittingham, L.A.},
  title = {{Effects of specimen age on plumage color}},
  journal = {The Auk},
  year = {2008},
  volume = {125:},
  pages = {803--808},
  file = {:Users/rossahmed/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Armenta, Dunn, Whittin\textit{g\textit{}}ham - 2008 - Effects of specimen age on plumage color.pdf:pdf},
  publisher = {BioOne},
  url = {http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/auk.2008.07006}
}

My .tex file is as follows:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[firstinits=true,style=authoryear,natbib=true,doi=false,isbn=false,url=false,uniquename=false,uniquelist=false,sorting=none, maxcitenames=2]{biblatex}

\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addspace} % remove comma inline citations

\renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\addspace\&\space} % delimits authors inline citations with &

\renewcommand*{\multicitedelim}{\addcomma\space} % seperate multi authors by comma





\addbibresource{test.bib}
\DeclareFieldFormat
  [article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
  {title}{#1\iSDot}

\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{}{%
  \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}
  


  
\makeatletter
\ifcsundef{abx@macro@\detokenize{date+extrayear}}{%
  }{%
  \renewbibmacro*{date+extrayear}{%
    \iffieldundef{year}{%
      }{%
      \addperiod\space
      \printtext{\printdateextra}%
    }%
  }%
}
\makeatother


\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{pages}{#1}
\DeclareNameFormat[article,periodical,book,electronic]{author}{\mkbibbold{#1}}


\begin{document}

\title{test}
\author{test}
\date{}
\maketitle

some text \parencite{AnderssonS1999} and more text \parencite{armenta2008}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

[localghost]

And where exactly is the problem description? What do you get instead of the expected result?

Perhaps you should replace \& in the author field of your second database entry by \and to get it working.

And it can't do any harm to give some feedback to proposals on your other question.


Thorsten

[Ross Ahmed]

And where exactly is the problem description? What do you get instead of the expected result?

Perhaps you should replace \& in the author field of your second database entry by \and to get it working.

And it can't do any harm to give some feedback to proposals on your other question.


Thorsten

Post now edited. I've replaced the \& in my .bib file and the same problem still occurs.

[localghost]

[…] I've replaced the \& in my .bib file and the same problem still occurs.

Did I tell you to replace \& with "and" (word) or with \and (command)?

[Ross Ahmed]

[…] I've replaced the \& in my .bib file and the same problem still occurs.

Did I tell you to replace \& with "and" (word) or with \and (command)? m(

Unfortunately, even with '\and', the problem is still occurring. I've updated the opening post to show what .bib file currently looks like.

[cgnieder]

If I use the code you posted in your original post and run it with an up to date TeX Live, i.e. biblatex and biber v1.5, I get the following biber warning:

WARN - Name "Armenta, J.K., Dunn, P.O. \and Whittingham, L.A." has too many commas: skipping name

and the reference you want to change isn't recognized at all in the running text.

Indeed every name should be separated with »and« (without backslash). Changing the offending line into

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author = {Armenta, J.K. and Dunn, P.O. and Whittingham, L.A.},

biber runs without a warning and I get

biblatex.png (32.94 KiB) Viewed 12371 times

(the file still doesn't run without errors but I didn't investigate them).

Regards

[localghost]

[…] Indeed every name should be separated with »and« (without backslash). Changing the offending line into

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author = {Armenta, J.K. and Dunn, P.O. and Whittingham, L.A.},

[…]

Argh! My mistake. I messed that up with the \author command for \maketitle and the separation of author names.

[Ross Ahmed]

Many thanks for your help. Problem addressed in this thread solved. There are other problem with my code, and having read board rules, I have started a different thread.