Angus Leeming wrote:
>Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
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>
>
>>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.
>
>
When the list is too long, the parsing fails completely. When I shorten
the list by using 'et al.' somewhere in the list I can get it to parse
(and even look right in the bibliography) but it doesn't look right in
the text. I get an extra 'and' or '&'.
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
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>Post the list of 20+ authors here and some wizard will spot the problem.
>
>
OK, here you go :)
@ARTICLE{Turner_etal_2001,
author = {{Turner}, M.~J.~L. and {Abbey}, A. and {Arnaud}, M. and
{Balasini}, M. and
{Barbera}, M. and {Belsole}, E. and {Bennie}, P.~J. and {Bernard},
J.~P. and
{Bignami}, G.~F. and {Boer}, M. and {Briel}, U. and {Butler}, I. and
{Cara}, C. and {Chabaud}, C. and {Cole}, R. and {Collura}, A. and
{Conte}, M. and {Cros}, A. and {Denby}, M. and {Dhez}, P. and
{Di Coco}, G. and {Dowson}, J. and {Ferrando}, P. and {Ghizzardi},
S. and
{Gianotti}, F. and {Goodall}, C.~V. and {Gretton}, L. and
{Griffiths}, R.~G. and
{Hainaut}, O. and {Hochedez}, J.~F. and {Holland}, A.~D. and
{Jourdain}, E. and {Kendziorra}, E. and {Lagostina}, A. and
{Laine}, R. and {La Palombara}, N. and {Lortholary}, M. and
{Lumb}, D. and {Marty}, P. and {Molendi}, S. and {Pigot}, C. and
{Poindron}, E. and {Pounds}, K.~A. and {Reeves}, J.~N. and {Reppin},
C. and
{Rothenflug}, R. and {Salvetat}, P. and {Sauvageot}, J.~L. and
{Schmitt}, D. and {Sembay}, S. and {Short}, A.~D.~T. and {Spragg},
J. and
{Stephen}, J. and {Str{\" u}der}, L. and {Tiengo}, A. and
{Trifoglio}, M. and
{Tr{\" u}mper}, J. and {Vercellone}, S. and {Vigroux}, L. and
{Villa}, G. and {Ward}, M.~J. and {Whitehead}, S. and {Zonca}, E.},
title = "{The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS
cameras : The MOS cameras}",
journal = {\aap},
year = 2001,
month = jan,
volume = 365,
pages = {L27-L35}
}