Well, there are lots of bibliography styles out there. I am most familiar
with achicago, since that is what I use day-to-day. Doing
\usepackage{achichicago}
in the preamble and specifying "achicago" for your bibstyle gives you the
command
\shortciteA{key}
to produce a citation with an abbreviated author list like
(Brown; Jarke et al.)
and others as well. I am sure other variations are available from other
packages, but this will be a matter of looking through their documentation.
Also sprach Mauro Bardini:
> Hi,
> I'm using pypliographic, creating a bibtex database, with lyx to manage my
> reference. All is working well but I'd like to have the citation in
> somethingh similar to (Brown et al., 1990) not the number. How can I solve
> this?
> I found and old email ond the archive suggesting to use natbib, I try to do
> that without succes.
> The istructions were:
>
> "
> You are forced to use bibtex.
> (it is easy to manage if you use pybliographic
> download pybliographer from www.gnome.org/pybliographer)
>
> Then use bibtex
> and add in the Latex preamble
> \usepackage[round,comma]{natbib}
>
>
> in the insert bibtex file insert your bibliographic database
> without the bib extension
>
> use style natplain (if you do not have any other bibliographic
> stylefiles you want to use)
> "
>
> Actually I used plain style instead of natplain (propably I don not have
> natplain).
>
>
> Thanks fot help me!
>
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