et-al

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I found a citation format that wants the et al. suffix part put into italics
(with et al being used for more than 6 authors). The authors are in normal
type.

I’m not sure this can be done?

Julian.

More than six authors: Perani D, Paulesu E, Galles NS, Dupoux E, Dehaene
S, Bettinardi V et al. The bilingual brain: proficiency and age of
acquisition of the second language. Brain 1998; 121: 1841–1852.

from http://edmgr.ovid.com/nr/accounts/ifauth.htm

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I don’t think it can, but I’m not sure how to fix it. We could add
an element to that has its own text formatting options
(although we’d still use elements to decide how many names to
include). If the eleent doesn’t exist and the elements do, we
could implicitly add it after , to maintain compatibility with
existing styles, although this might get confusing. I’m also open to
other ideas, but this seems to me the most versatile solution. Any
other suggestions?

Simon

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Simon Kornblith wrote:> On Nov 10, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Julian Onions wrote:

I found a citation format that wants the et al. suffix part put into
italics (with et al being used for more than 6 authors). The authors
are in normal type.

I’m not sure this can be done?

I don’t think it can, but I’m not sure how to fix it. We could add
an element to that has its own text formatting options
(although we’d still use elements to decide how many names to
include). If the eleent doesn’t exist and the elements do, we
could implicitly add it after , to maintain compatibility with
existing styles, although this might get confusing. I’m also open to
other ideas, but this seems to me the most versatile solution. Any
other suggestions?

Another option is a “et-al-italics” boolean option.

Bruce