# Retire affixes on cs:et-al
**URL:** https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/retire-affixes-on-cs-et-al/1118
**Category:** CSL Development
**Created:** [August 31, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/retire-affixes-on-cs-et-al/1118 "2012-08-31T01:53:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Rintze\_Zelle](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/retire-affixes-on-cs-et-al/1118/1 "2012-08-31T01:53:37Z")
A user recently reported that citeproc-js ignores affixes on cs:et-al, even
though they allowed by the CSL 1.0 spec. I tried tracking down why we allow
affixes on cs:et-al in the first place, and it seems to be a left-over from
a time where we contemplated using the “prefix” attribute to control the
delimiter between the last name and et-al. However, we ended up introducing
the delimiter-precedes-et-al attribute. As such, I think we can safely do
without affixes on cs:et-al.
If there are no objections, I would like to retire “prefix” and “suffix” on
cs:et-al. Affixes would no longer be mentioned in the spec in the
description of cs:et-al, and I would mark the attributes as “legacy” in the
schema to prevent backwards-incompatibility.
Rintze
citeproc-js ticket:
[https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/issue/141/affixes-on-cs-et-al-are-ignored](https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/issue/141/affixes-on-cs-et-al-are-ignored)
the introduction of cs:et-al:
[http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/biting-the-bullet-on-et-al-etc-tp5928113p5928251.html](http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/biting-the-bullet-on-et-al-etc-tp5928113p5928251.html)
the introduction of delimiter-precedes-et-al:
[http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/et-al-for-short-form-names-td4961814.html#a5046434](http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/et-al-for-short-form-names-td4961814.html#a5046434)
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Parnot](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Charles_Parnot)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/retire-affixes-on-cs-et-al/1118/2 "2012-08-31T11:12:39Z")
All good for me.