Hubertus wrote:

Dear Mailinglist, I use the excellent BibTex module with this setup: \setupbibtex[database=biblio,sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=apa,refcommand=short,sorttype=bbl,criterium=cited] So if I have something like this @ARTICLE{Akimoto2005, author = {R. Akimoto and B. S. Li and K. Akita and T. Hasama}, ... } in my *.bib file, the \cite[Akimoto2005] results in [ALAH05]. Is there a way to get only the first author with three letters and the year ([Aki05]) in the citation?

Patch the generated .bbl file by hand. after its initial creation, it will not be modified by context itself anymore. Best wishes, Taco