Hi Julian,
Yes — and this turns out to be ConTeXt rather than BibTeX.
I had a look at the current |publ-imp-apa.mkvi|. For citations, the APA
definition still contains essentially:
|etallimit=5, etaldisplay=1, |
which explains exactly what you are seeing: with five authors ConTeXt
prints all five names; only a longer author list is truncated to the
first author followed by “et al.”
More interestingly, the ConTeXt APA file still cites the 2010 sixth
edition of the APA manual as its reference. APA 7 changed this rule: for
three or more authors, the in-text citation should use the first author
followed by “et al.” from the first citation onwards.
So this is not a problem with your |.bib| entry.
I think the appropriate APA-7 adjustment is:
|\setupbtx [apa:cite] [etallimit=2, etaldisplay=1,
otherstext={\btxspace\btxlabeltext{others}}] |
placed after:
|\usebtxdefinitions[apa] |
The |otherstext| setting is deliberate too. The present ConTeXt APA
definition puts a comma before “et al.”, whereas APA 7 wants:
|(Hook et al., 2013) |
rather than:
|(Hook, et al., 2013) |
And yes, “et al.” has a full stop after “al.”
This is actually a useful find for the Garden documentation as well: it
looks as though we should mention that ConTeXt's built-in |apa|
specification has not been completely brought into line with APA 7.
Best//JP
Le 01/09/2026 à 11:20, jbf a écrit :
Just a simple query JP; probably a little tweak I need.
\cite[authoryear][main::hook2013cultural],
based on
@article{hook2013cultural,
author = {Hook, J. N. and Davis, D. E. and Owen, J. and
Worthington, E. L., Jr. and Utsey, S. O},
title = {Cultural humility: Measuring openness to culturally
diverse clients},
journal = {Journal of Counseling Psychology},
volume = {60},
number = {3},
pages = {353–366},
year = {2013},
doi = {10.1037/a0032595}
}
is producing (Hook, Davis, Owen, Worthington, & Utsey, 2013) in an
in-text citation.
I was hoping it might produce (Hook et al, 2013).
This is possibly more to do with BibTeX than ConTeXt.
Any thoughts?
Julian
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the
Wiki!
maillist : [email protected] /
https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl
webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror)
archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context
wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
