[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX doesn’t recognize “et al.” in the Bibliography

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I'm using Jabref to manage my Bibliography.

Sometimes, I put directly:

First Author et al.

when adding the article author's name in Jabref.

When compiling my .tex file, LaTeX doesn't recognize the et. al as more names. It takes it as a name/surname.

This is an example of a Bibliography entry in Jabref.

@ARTICLE{Wolf2003,  
  author = {Wolf, K.et al.},  
  title = {Compensation mechanism in tumor cell migration: mesenchymal–amoeboid
    transition after blocking of pericellular proteolysis},  
  journal = {J. Cell Biol.},  
  year = {2003},  
  volume = {160},  
  pages = {267–277},  
 }

This is a .texMWE with the bib entry mentioned:

\documentclass[11pt]{book}  
\usepackage{cite}  
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\begin{document}  
Here is the bib entry mentioned\cite{Wolf2003}  

\bibliography{bibfile} 
\end{document}

Here's the output:

Output of the <code>.tex</code> MWE mentioned above
How can I solve this problem?

Best Answer

The input conventions of BibTeX are rather strict; multiple authors must be separated by the and keyword:

author={Alpher, Ralph and Bethe, Hans and Gamow, George}

or, if you want to keep only initials,

author={Alpher, R. and Bethe, H. and Gamow, G.}

If you want only the first author and automatically add et al. in the bibliography, use the others keyword:

author={Alpher, R. and others}
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