[Tex/LaTex] To get “et al” in the text when a reference is cited with natbib and IEEEtranN

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I have loaded \usepackage[round, sort]{natbib} and \bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN}

my .bib is:

@misc{kinaSUR,
    author = "{Barnett, S., Etchells, D., Weidelich, Z. and Tomkins,M}",
    title = {{Canon T3i Review }},
    howpublished = {\url{http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/T3I/T3IA4.HTM}},
    note = {{Online}; Accessed January 2015} ,
    year=2011,
}

when I cite (with \citep{kinaSUR}) I get: Barnett, S., Etchells, D., Weidelich, Z. and Tomkins,M in the text body of my report instead of Barnett,S. et al.
How can you manage to get the citation right?

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The extra pair of curly braces around the contents of the author field tell bibtex that the piece has a single "corporate" author, rather than four distinct authors. Remove the curly braces, and replace the two "connective" commas with the keyword and. The author field should look like this:

author = "Barnett, S. and Etchells, D. and Weidelich, Z. and Tomkins, M.",

Be sure to re-run BibTeX and to run LaTeX twice to propagate the changes fully.

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[Tex/LaTex] Citation “et al.” only for four and more authors with natbib and jf.bst

To change the truncation criterion for using "et al." in a citation callout, from a piece having three or more authors to it having four or more authors, it is necessary to modify the function format.lab.names in the bibliography style file.

I suggest you do the following:

Make a copy of the version of jf.bst you've been working with so far. Name the copy, say, jf3.bst -- "3" to indicate non-truncation if a piece has exactly three authors. (Don't modify jf.bst directly.)
Open the file jf3.bst in a text editor and find the function format.lab.names. It should start around line 1160 and span 18 lines.

Delete the entire function (i.e., all 18 lines) and insert the following chunk of code (46 lines total) in its place:

FUNCTION {format.lab.names}
{'s :=
 "" 't :=
  #1 'nameptr :=
  s num.names$ 'numnames :=
  numnames 'namesleft :=
    { namesleft #0 > }
    { s nameptr
      "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$
      't :=
      nameptr #1 >
        {
          nameptr #2 =
          numnames #3 > and
            { "others" 't :=
              #1 'namesleft := }
            'skip$
          if$
          namesleft #1 >
            { ", " * t * }
            {
              s nameptr "{ll}" format.name$ duplicate$ "others" =
                { 't := }
                { pop$ }
              if$
              t "others" =
                { " et~al." * }
                {
                  numnames #2 >
                    { "," * }
                    'skip$
                  if$
                  bbl.and
                  space.word * t *
                }
              if$
            }
          if$
        }
        't
      if$
      nameptr #1 + 'nameptr :=
      namesleft #1 - 'namesleft :=
    }
  while$
}

Save the file jf3.bst either in the directory where your main tex file is located or in a directory that's searched by BibTeX. If you choose the second option, be sure to update the filename database of your TeX distribution.
Start using the new bibliography style by using the instruction \bibliographystyle{jf3} instead of \bibliographystyle{jf}. After you first switch bibliography styles, be sure to run LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate all changes.

Happy BibTeXing!

Addendum: Here are the citation callouts produced with \citet running the MWE below, first the jf and then with jf3. (One entry has three authors and the other has four.)

With jf, both citation callouts truncate to Andersen et al.:

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With jf3, only one citaton callout -- for the piece with four authors -- is truncated:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{abd:2007,
  author      = "Torben G. Andersen and Tim Bollerslev and Francis X. Diebold",
  title       = "Roughing it up: {Including} jump components in the
                measurement, modeling and forecasting of return volatility",
  journal     = "Review of Economics and Statistics",
  year        = 2007,
  volume      = 89,
  number      = 4,
  month       = "November",
  pages       = "701--720",
}

@article{abde:2001,
  author      = "Torben G. Andersen and Tim Bollerslev and Francis X. Diebold
                and Heiko Ebens",
  title       = "The distribution of realized stock return volatility",
  journal     = "Journal of Financial Economics",
  year        = 2001,
  volume      = 61,
  number      = 1,
  month       = "July",
  pages       = "43--76",
}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[round,authoryear,comma]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{jf}  % or: jf3
\begin{document}
\citet{abd:2007}; \citet{abde:2001}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

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