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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label manyauthor</title>
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<h3>BibTeX doesn&#8217;t understand lists of names</h3>
<p/>BibTeX has a strict syntax for lists of authors&#8217; (or editors&#8217;)
names in the BibTeX data file; if you write the list of names in a
&#8220;natural&#8221;-seeming way, the chances are you will confuse BibTeX,
and the output produced will be quite different from what you had
hoped.
<p/>Names should be expressed in one of the forms
<blockquote>
<pre>
First Last
Last, First
Last, Suffix, First
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
and lists of names should be separated with &#8220;<code>and</code>&#8221;.
For example:
<blockquote>
<pre>
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs, John P. Doe &#38;
          Another Idiot}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
falls foul of two of the above rules: a syntactically significant
comma appears in an incorrect place, and &#8216;<code>\</code><code>&#38;</code>&#8217; is being used as a
name separator.  The output of the above might be something like:
<blockquote>
<pre>
John P. Doe &#38; Another Idiot Fred Q. Bloggs
</pre>

</blockquote><p>
because &#8220;John P. Doe &#38; Another Idiot has become the &#8216;first name&#8217;,
while &#8220;Fred Q. Bloggs&#8221; has become the &#8216;last name&#8217; of a single
person.  The example should have been written:
<blockquote>

<pre>
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and John P. Doe and
          Another Idiot}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
Some bibliography styles implement clever acrobatics with very long
author lists.  You can force truncation by using the pseudo-name
&#8220;<code>others</code>&#8221;, which will usually translate to something like
&#8220;<em>et al</em>&#8221; in the typeset output.  So, if Mr. Bloggs wanted to
distract attention from his co-authors, he would write:
<blockquote>
<pre>
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and others}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor</a>
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