Re: org-cite: only last names and et al. for more than two coauthors

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:13 AM M. Pger <mpger@protonmail.com> wrote:

> I've recently tried to switch to org-cite, but I still have some problems 
> with the basics.

First, org-cite is a framework for citations. When reporting issues
related to it, you really need to identify what processor(s) you are
seeing the behavior with.

> Consider the following entry:
>
> @article{akey2022,
>   title = {This is the title},
>   shorttitle = {This is the short title},
>   author = {Surname1, Name1 and Surname2, Name2 and Surname3, Name3},
>   year = {2022},
>   (truncated)
> }
>
> I want to have something like: "as shown by Surname1 et al. (2022), ...", 
> i.e. something one can get with natbib \citet command. With org-ref it worked 
> like a charm.
>
> I've tried the syntax presented in 
> https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-07-31-citations.html#more-exporting, that 
> is:
> [cite/t/c:@akey2022]
> but I ended with a 'wrong type argument' error.
>
> I then tried [cite/t:@akey2022]: exporting succeeds. However, I end up with 
> "as shown by Surname1, Name1 and Surname2, Name2 and Surname3, Name3 (2022), 
> ...".
>
> How can I correctly specify the options mentioned above? Is there a complete 
> and updated tutorial available somewhere?

[cite/t:@key] should work as you expect in natbib, biblatex, csl.

Possible issues, depending on which of those you're using:

- some error with the bib file; or a mismatch between the file and the
bibtex dialect or something
- the citation style

A complete MWE would help.

Bruce