Is it possible to set the number of names to appear in a bibliography entry differently from the maximum number of names that appear in the citation key (using alphabetic
style)?
For example,
[ABCD06] Alice, Bob, Carol, and David. "Title", 2006.
[ABC+06] Alice, Bob, Carol, David, and Eve. "Title Revisted," 2007
This is how alpha
behaves in BibTeX. With four authors, all are listed in both the entry and the citekey. With five or more, all authors are still listed in the entry but only the first three (with a +) are listed in the citekey.
I played a little (without luck) with maxnames
, maxcitenames
, and mincitenames
but figured it will be quicker to just ask.
Best Answer
EDIT: My answer relies on a message from Philipp Lehman, the author of
biblatex
, at de.comp.text.tex on December 29th, 2010. The significant quote (translated by me):EDIT2: When using the package option
maxbibnames=99
,maxnames
/minnames
must be set in addition; settingmaxcitenames
/mincitenames
won't produce the desired "alpha" label format.