General ⇒ truncate list of authors in achemso

[marcusa]

Hi everybody

im working currently on a manuscript for journal that requires the use of the achemso package. Furthermore they require that the list of authors in the bibliography entry should be truncated after a max of 9 authors. Meaning that after the nineth author "et al." will be put in the bibliographic entry.
I looked a bit around and found that this can be done via etalmode=truncate as well as the maxauthors=9 options.

however when i add these to my header (see below) i get the message

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! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `etalmode=truncate' for package `achemso'.

here my header:

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\documentclass[journal=jacsat,manuscript=article]{achemso}

\usepackage[etalmode=truncate, maxauthors=9]{achemso}
\setkeys{acs}{usetitle=true} %to show title of publciation in reference
\setkeys{acs}{keywords = true} %to show keywords

\linespread{1.5} %double line space
\usepackage{natbib}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{color}

\hypersetup{colorlinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0}} %to avoid coloured markers around hyperref links
\usepackage{fixltx2e}

.....

any suggestion what i need to do? i verified tha5t i have the latest version of the achemso style package but that did not change anything

[Johannes_B]

Please always check if an example is working. If not, a helper will have to invest time to make it work which is time added to the time testing.

For now, try this:

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\listfiles
\documentclass{achemso}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\title{}\author{}\email{}\affiliation{}
\usepackage[
%maxauthors=3,etalmode=truncate
]{achemso}
\setkeys{acs}{maxauthors=2}
\setkeys{acs}{etalmode=truncate}
\begin{document}
Cite\cite{aksin}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}

[marcusa]

thank you for the quick reply!
Why does one have to use the \setkeys{acs} option and can not open the package option as usual by putting it into square brackets. \usepackage[etalmode=truncate, maxauthors=9]{achemso}

[Johannes_B]

No idea, i asked the author. Let's see what happens. And as i wrote those lines, he already responded, please see the transcript. Thanks to our moderator Joseph Wright.

Addendum: The class achemso provides the full feature set of the package. Setting the options via setkeys is the intended way. So you can minimize further.

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\documentclass{achemso}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\title{}\author{}\email{}\affiliation{}
\setkeys{acs}{maxauthors=2, etalmode=truncate}
\begin{document}
Cite\cite{aksin}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}