Re: [eigen] bibtex

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Just as a side note. We might ask users that use Natbib to use

\citet* or \citep*

which would result in

Guennebaud, Jacob and others (2010) or
(Guennebaud, Jacob and others, 2010) or

so the issue of et al. were gone.

- Hauke

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Hauke Heibel
<hauke.heibel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Schmidt, Michael
> <Michael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 1) Jacob B., Gunnebaud G., and et al. Eigen v3.
>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org, 2010.
>>> 2) Jacob, B., Gunnebaud, G., et al., 2010. Eigen v3.
>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org
>>> 3) B. Jacob, G. Gunnebaud, and et al. Eigen v3.
>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org, 2010.
>>
>> As far as I know, there should be no "and" before the "et al.", should
>> it? Et al. is the abbreviation of "et alii/aliae/alia", which means "and
>> others"...
>
> The "and" serves just as a separator of authors and may even be
> discarded as it is in case 2). But I agree, it is strange to have an
> "and et".
>
> So then Christoph's suggestion of using "others" seems to be better
>
> @MISC{eigenweb,
>  author = {Ga\"{e}l Guennebaud and Beno\^{i}t Jacob and others},
>  title = {Eigen v3},
>  howpublished = {http://eigen.tuxfamily.org},
>  year = {2010}
> }
>
> In the references list it will be printed as "and others" and direct
> citations may in rare cases still be
>
> G. Guennebaud et al. (2010)
>
> The title and year are fine?
>
> - Hauke
>



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