I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the "et al" in references to italics.
I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file?
Hi Rob,
If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your bst file and see where it adds the "et al", then simply include it within an \emph.
For example, change the line from:
{ " et~al." * }
to:
{ " \emph{et~al.}" * }(...there is likely to be more than one occurance within the file)
Also, change the name of the modified bst file to avoid conflictions.
Hope this helps.
Lata, Paul
