[comp.text.tex] Tib citation style problem

melvin@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (03/27/91)

We run tib 2.1 (a bibliographic preprocessor not unlike bib) locally,
and recently some of my users have been asking for a new citation style
that is not currently available.

In the current format they are using (citation style 3 in the manual),

'Last names of authors or first author et al. if more than three authors.
Can be followed by further code which denotes additional fields from the
reference file, as above.  If \Citebreak is defined to be {,}, the 
template 3D-4 will effect citations of the form "Hale,1983."  If there
are no authors, editors or the issuer is used as above.'

This is all fine and dandy, but my users want 'et al.' to be used for
more than 2 authors, not 3.  Anybody have any ideas how to go about
doing this?

	- Lee
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