# Repository cleanup: removed affixes from cs:et-al
**URL:** https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/repository-cleanup-removed-affixes-from-cs-et-al/1163
**Category:** CSL Development
**Created:** [March 29, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/repository-cleanup-removed-affixes-from-cs-et-al/1163 "2013-03-29T01:25:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Rintze\_Zelle](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/repository-cleanup-removed-affixes-from-cs-et-al/1163/1 "2013-03-29T01:25:39Z")
Just a note that I deleted any affixes (cs:prefix and cs:suffix) from
cs:et-al for the repository styles. As far as I know they never did
anything in citeproc-js, they were explicitly deprecated in CSL 1.0.1,
and CSL 1.0.1 introduced the delimiter-precedes-et-al attribute to
control the delimiter between the last name and the “et-al” term. See
> **[delimiter-precedes-et-al](https://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-schema/issues/21/delimiter-precedes-et-al)**
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> As discussed on the xbiblio mailing list\[\*\], I'd like to propose a new backwards-compatible hierarchical name attribute, delimiter-precedes-et-al, that would function similarly to delimiter-precedes-last.
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> By default, the delimiter between the et-al...
[http://citationstyles.org/downloads/release-notes-csl101.html#affixes-on-cs-et-al](http://citationstyles.org/downloads/release-notes-csl101.html#affixes-on-cs-et-al)
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Rintze