I'm trying to set maxnames
in my biber option, but it doesn't work.
I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong.
My MWE is:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,german]{scrartcl}
\setkomafont{section}{\large}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,a4paper,tmargin=25mm,bmargin=25mm,lmargin=30mm,rmargin=30mm}
\usepackage[bibstyle=authortitle,citestyle=authoryear,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{paul.bib}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{txfonts} %Schriftart Times New Roman
\begin{document}
foobar\cite{pisae2003}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
my paul.bib:
@ARTICLE{pisae2003,
author = {{Prenzel, Manfred and Baumert, Jürgen and Blum,Werner and Lehmann, Rainer and Leutner, Detlev and Neubrand,Michael and Pekrun,Reinhard Rost,Jürgen and Schiefele, Ulrich}},
title = {PISA-2003},
subtitle = {Ergebnisse des zweiten Ländervergleichs. Zusammenfassung},
url = {http://pisa.ipn.uni-kiel.de/PISA2003_E_Zusammenfassung.pdf},
lastchecked = {20.\,März.\,2013},
year = 2005,}
Best Answer
You have an additional pair of braces in your
author
field that makes impossible for Biber to count the number of authors: you're specifying, according to the syntax rules, only one author.For setting the maximum number of authors shown there are various options; here's how you can limit the number of authors shown in citations to three. The
file contents*
environment is just a convenience for making the example self contained.Here we're telling LaTeX to show three authors in a citation when the total number of them is more than five. So up to five authors are shown, but when their number is six or more, only the first three will appear in a citation (adjust to what you prefer). Conversely, by setting
maxbibnames=1000
, we're saying that any list of authors will be printed fully (well, not if there are more than one thousand of them).The relation between
maxbibnames
andminbibnames
is the same as betweenmaxcitenames
andminbibnames
.Setting
maxnames
is the same as settingmaxbibnames
andmaxcitenames
to the same value; similarly forminnames
.