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How can I get word to cite "et al." for a number of authors?
I'm using the Word 2007 Insert Citation tool but Word does not abbreviate to
et al when there is more than 2 authors as is custom. I can't seem to find any help article on this either |
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How can I get word to cite "et al." for a number of authors?
There is no setting in Word to change the number of authors which are shown
for a certain style. The number of authors shown depends on the implementation of the style. The good news is that those implementations are open and can be adjusted in any way you want. The bad news is that they require you to have some knowledge of xslt and look rather complicated if you have no idea what you are doing. The style implementations can be found in path to winword.exe\Bibliography\Style On 32-bit systems, this commonly is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style Information on how many authors should be shown is commonly (not always as it depends on the style) stored in the template formatPersonsAuthor and its dependencies. Yves -- BibWord : Microsoft Word Citation and Bibliography styles http://bibword.codeplex.com "sarnyg" wrote in message ... I'm using the Word 2007 Insert Citation tool but Word does not abbreviate to et al when there is more than 2 authors as is custom. I can't seem to find any help article on this either |
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How can I get word to cite "et al." for a number of authors?
And how to use "et al." can be very complicated -- if there are other
citations with the same first (several) authors, you have to list enough of the authors to identify the work in question, and Word doesn't compare citations for that sort of information. On Dec 17, 7:07*am, "Yves Dhondt" wrote: There is no setting in Word to change the number of authors which are shown for a certain style. The number of authors shown depends on the implementation of the style. The good news is that those implementations are open and can be adjusted in any way you want. The bad news is that they require you to have some knowledge of xslt and look rather complicated if you have no idea what you are doing. The style implementations can be found in * * path to winword.exe\Bibliography\Style On 32-bit systems, this commonly is * * C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style Information on how many authors should be shown is commonly (not always as it depends on the style) stored in the template formatPersonsAuthor and its dependencies. Yves -- BibWord : Microsoft Word Citation and Bibliography styleshttp://bibword.codeplex.com "sarnyg" wrote in message ... I'm using the Word 2007 Insert Citation tool but Word does not abbreviate to et al when there is more than 2 authors as is custom. I can't seem to find any help article on this either- |
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