consecutive full stops in "num" bib style after "et al"
In the "num" bibliography style, bibliography entries that get "et al."ed (the author list is too long and "et al." is inserted) end up with two full stops in a row. Here's a minimal example: \setupbibtex[database=tmp] \setuppublications[alternative=num] \setuppublicationlist[artauthoretallimit=3, authoretaldisplay=3, editoretaldisplay=3, artauthoretaldisplay=3, % authoretaltext={ et al}, % artauthoretaltext={ et al}, ] \starttext Test \cite[Larkin:1980]. \blank[big] \placepublications[criterium=text] \stoptext (The tmp.bib file is attached.) The bibliography entry is: [1] Jill Larkin, John McDermott and Dorothea P. Simon et al.. Expert and novice performance in solving physics problems. Science, 208(4450):1335--1342, 1980. The doubled full stop can be fixed by commenting in the two lines % authoretaltext={ et al}, % artauthoretaltext={ et al}, Should these commented-in settings be the default for the "num" style (because it'll always put one more full stop between the author list and the title)? Another workaround is never to use et al. But that idea failed when I had to cite the Nobel-Prize-winning gravity-wave paper ("Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger"). It has, I think, 1000 authors! -- -Sanjoy http://savelongwharfpark.org/ Save Long Wharf Park in Boston Harbor! http://streetfightingmath.com/ Six reasoning tools to make hard problems easy.
On 2019-07-29 15:18, Alan Braslau
\setupbibtex[database=tmp] \setuppublications[alternative=num]
You are using the old mkii bibtex module.
You're right. I'm too afraid of changing to the new way, at least for the book that I've just submitted for copyediting. For the next book, I'll try some experiments with the new way. -Sanjoy
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