[Tex/LaTex] Using ‘Et al.’ rather than a list of authors in citation in main body

author-numberbibliographies

I want to use the 'et al' form for the second and third of three authors in a citation in a paragraph. I've the following test entry in Jabref

@ARTICLE{testKey,
author = {Della Mirandola, A and Della Mirandola, B and Della Mirandola,
C},
title = {Title of Paper},
 journal = {Working Paper, Institute},
 year = {2013},
 owner = {User},
timestamp = {2013.08.05}
}

I'm sure sure if this approach is using bibtex, biblatex or natbib or whatever, but I have to use a .bst file to format my bibliography (http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~dbackus/GE_asset_pricing/BGTZ/jf.bst) as I need to follow a specified format, so I want to continue creating the .bbl file automatically in TexnicCenter like this:

\bibliographystyle{elsart-harv}
\bibliography{C:/jabrefBib}

and just citing the references in the document as usual (\cite{Key}).

I understand that the .bst file states that it shows the full list of authors the first time the paper is cited, but I can't get it to give the authors as Della Mirandola et al. (2013) rather than Della Mirandola, Della Mirandola, and Della Mirandola (2013)

How can I do this? Am I confined to the code in the .bst file?

Best Answer

Try using the natbib option longnamesfirst.

makes the first citation of any reference the equivalent of the starred variant (full author list) and subsequent citations normal (abbreviated list);

Also you could have a look at natbib reference sheet for more options using natbib.

you could also try to use the shortcites command from natbib

\shortcites{key-list}

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[Tex/LaTex] Automatically adding DOI fields to a hand-made bibliography

I followed user13348's suggestion, and using his request function, I wrote a python3 script that takes a bib file and outputs a new bibfile with the DOIs it finds. I'm not using bibtool or taking any aux files.

The requirements are bibtexparser and unidecode.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, re
from unidecode import unidecode
import bibtexparser
from bibtexparser.bwriter import BibTexWriter
import http.client as httplib
import urllib

# Search for the DOI given a title; e.g.  "computation in Noisy Radio Networks"
# Credit to user13348, slight modifications
# http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6810/automatically-adding-doi-fields-to-a-hand-made-bibliography
def searchdoi(title, author):
  params = urllib.parse.urlencode({"titlesearch":"titlesearch", "auth2" : author, "atitle2" : title, "multi_hit" : "on", "article_title_search" : "Search", "queryType" : "author-title"})
  headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0" , "Accept": "text/html", "Content-Type" : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Host" : "www.crossref.org"}
  # conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.crossref.org:80") # Not working any more, HTTPS required
  conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("www.crossref.org")       
  conn.request("POST", "/guestquery/", params, headers)
  response = conn.getresponse()
  #print(response.status, response.reason)
  data = response.read()
  conn.close()
  return re.search(r'doi\.org/([^"^<^>]+)', str(data))

def normalize(string):
    """Normalize strings to ascii, without latex."""
    string = re.sub(r'[{}\\\'"^]',"", string)
    string = re.sub(r"\$.*?\$","",string) # better remove all math expressions
    return unidecode(string)

def get_authors(entry):
    """Get a list of authors' or editors' last names."""
    def get_last_name(authors):
        for author in authors :
            author = author.strip(" ")
            if "," in author:
                yield author.split(",")[0]
            elif " " in author:
                yield author.split(" ")[-1]
            else:
                yield author

    try:
        authors = entry["author"]
    except KeyError:
        authors = entry["editor"]

    authors = normalize(authors).split("and")
    return list(get_last_name(authors))


print("Reading Bibliography...")
with open(sys.argv[1]) as bibtex_file:
    bibliography = bibtexparser.load(bibtex_file)


print("Looking for Dois...")
before = 0
new = 0
total = len(bibliography.entries)
for i,entry in enumerate(bibliography.entries):
    print("\r{i}/{total} entries processed, please wait...".format(i=i,total=total),flush=True,end="")
    try:
        if "doi" not in entry or entry["doi"].isspace():
            title = entry["title"]
            authors = get_authors(entry)
            for author in authors:
                doi_match = searchdoi(title,author)
                if doi_match:
                    doi = doi_match.groups()[0]
                    entry["doi"] = doi
                    new += 1
        else:
            before += 1
    except:
        pass
print("")

template="We added {new} DOIs !\nBefore: {before}/{total} entries had DOI\nNow: {after}/{total} entries have DOI"

print(template.format(new=new,before=before,after=before+new,total=total))
outfile = sys.argv[1]+"_doi.bib"
print("Writing result to ",outfile)
writer = BibTexWriter()
writer.indent = '    '     # indent entries with 4 spaces instead of one
with open(outfile, 'w') as bibfile:
    bibfile.write(writer.write(bibliography))

You can use it as such :

python3 searchdoi.py test.bib

And it will look like this :

Reading Bibliography...
Looking for Dois...
161/162 entries processed, please wait...
We added 49 DOIs !
Before: 42/162 entries had DOI
Now: 91/162 entries have DOI
Writing result to  test.bib_doi.bib

You can now just check test.bib_doi.bib.

[Tex/LaTex] Inconsistent Author et al Behavior with LaTeX+BibTeX

You seem, in your latest comment, intent on finding a way to monitor such behaviour.

You should give a try at biblatex, which is very complete and highly configurable.

For your precise case, you would use \usepackage[maxnames=99]{biblatex}, which would always display all the authors.

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