Re: [eigen] bibtex

[Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.08.2010 00:00, Benoit Jacob wrote:
> 2010/8/20 Schmidt, Michael<Michael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Just a side-note of a silent reader of this mailing list:
> >
> > > @MISC{eigenweb,
> > >    author = {Beno\^{i}t Jacob and Ga\"{e}l Gunnebaud and et al.},
> > >    title = {Eigen v3},
> > >    howpublished = {http://eigen.tuxfamily.org},
> > >    year = {2010}
> > > }
> > >
> > > May generate the following outputs for different bibtex styles.
> > >
> > > 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"...
>
> That's true! Which leaves the question wide open, how does one say 'et al'
> in BibTex?
> Benoit

I think, for most styles the 'correct' way to do it is to write

author = {John Doe and others},

this should work at least for
\bibtexstyle{plain}

hth Christoph


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