Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem citing articles with 20+ authors with bibtex,
> natbib.
>
> When I simply use the bibtex entry downloaded from ADS with all 20+
> authors I get a LyX error complaining that the paragraph ends before the
> '}'.
But the file can be processed correctly by latex/bibtex to give you correct
paper output? LyX's BibTeX parser is not very sophisticated, so the
on-screen look may be messed up, but this is orthogonal to the paper
output.
> Removing some authors fixes the problem, but then I bibliography isn't
> right. I have left the 'list all authors' option unchecked. I actually
> just want the bibliography to say: 'Smith et al., 2000'.
>
> I've tried various options in the .bib file, like
> author = {{Smith} et al.}
> author = {{Smith} {et al.}}
> author = {{Smith} and {et al.}}
>
> But these all give bad results in the text.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
Post the list of 20+ authors here and some wizard will spot the problem.
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Angus
