Am 06.07.2011 um 12:47 schrieb Hans Hagen:
On 6-7-2011 12:03, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
as databases usually have *lots* of entries this really is a daring venture :o)
skimming through hundreds, thousands of entries, finding those how have exactly 3 authors and stuffing the information from the three "\author" fields into the one "a" field!
hope that nothing will go wrong ...
you can write a script that does it for you ... maybe at some point I will provide some extra hooks in the bib module but it has no priority on my agenda
an even more challenging option, that might need some extra hooks, is the "ibid" option: an article is cited in a footnote. the macro looks if this article is already cited before. if so it looks if this is exactly the same article as cited directly before. and it makes sure that it is not the first cite on the current page (resp. spread). if all these are true, the \cite command gives an "Ibid." instead of the full cite. as this is provided for latex users by Philipp Lehman with his biblatex package, it is considered to be kind of standard by some publisher today. Steffen