and lists of names should be separated with “First Last Last, First Last, Suffix, First
and”.
For example:
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs, John P. Doe &
Another Idiot}
falls foul of two of the above rules: a syntactically significant
comma appears in an incorrect place, and ‘\&’ is being used as a
name separator. The output of the above might be something like:
because “John P. Doe & Another Idiot has become the ‘first name’, while “Fred Q. Bloggs” has become the ‘last name’ of a single person. The example should have been written:John P. Doe & Another Idiot Fred Q. Bloggs
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and John P. Doe and
Another Idiot}
Some bibliography styles implement clever acrobatics with very long
author lists. You can force truncation by using the pseudo-name
“others”, which will usually translate to something like
“et al” in the typeset output. So, if Mr. Bloggs wanted to
distract attention from his co-authors, he would write:
AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and others}
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