Here is the citation:
@Article{boker2011, Author = {Boker, S. and Neale, M. and Maes, H. and Wilde, M. and Spiegel, M. and Brick, T. and Spies, J. and Estabrook, R. and Kenny, S. and Bates, T. and others}, Title = {Open{M}x: {A}n open source extended structural equation modeling framework}, Journal = {Psychometrika}, Volume = {76}, Number = {2}, Pages = {306--317}, year = 2011 }
Here is a test document:
\documentclass[doc]{apa6} \usepackage[american]{babel} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage[style=apa,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,apabackref=true,backend=biber]{biblatex} \DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa} \addbibresource{jpritikin.bib} \shorttitle{IFA} \begin{document} OpenMx \parencite{boker2011} \printbibliography \end{document}
I obtain this mess: Boker, S. et al., Neale, M. et al., Maes, H., et al., Wilde, M., et al., Spiegel, M., et al., Brick,
T., et al., . . . Et al., et al., et al., Bates, T., et al. (2011). OpenMx: An open source
extended structural equation modeling framework. Psychometrika, 76 (2), 306–317.
(Cit. on p. 17).
I thought maybe I had a bad mix of versions. I tried "tlmgr update –all". I have biblatex 2.8 installed and I just installed biber 1.8 from http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/. I still get too many "et al."
Suggestions?
Best Answer
This problem is due to
biblatex-apa
's (apa.bbx
's)apaauthor
name format; you might want to notify the author of this small bug.The string
and others
in the author list setsifmorenames
to true.apaauthor
checks for this case whenever a name is printed, not just at the very end of the list; consequently it prints theandothers
string ("et al.") after each name.The fix is to add the following lines to your preamble.
The MWE
then yields
Update 2013-10: This has been corrected in
biblatex-apa
version 6.4 according to a comment below the question from user PLK.