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Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) style files for biblatex
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[Question] maxnames=100? #125

Closed folofjc closed 3 years ago

folofjc commented 3 years ago

It looks like in sbl.cbx that you set maxnames=100. I was wondering why this is? Some books that I am citing have like 10 editors, and it is pretty cumbersome that they all show up.

In SBLHS2 6.2.3 and 6.2.8 it states that if there are more than 3 editors or authors, should list 1 and et. al. This seems to me that minnames should be 1, and maxnames should be 3. Am I missing something?

folofjc commented 3 years ago

Ah, I just saw that it says in the bibliography that they can all be there, but that using et al. is permitted. I'll just change it in mine, since I like the et al. better. I'll close this.

dcpurton commented 3 years ago

Yes. You can control the citation and bibliography number of names independently when you load biblatex:

\usepackage[style=sbl,maxcitenames=3,maxbibnames=6]{biblatex}
folofjc commented 3 years ago

Yep, that is what I changed. Thanks!

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 2:21 AM David Purton @.***> wrote:

Yes. You can control the citation and bibliography number of names independently when you load biblatex:

\usepackage[style=sbl,maxcitenames=3,maxbibnames=6]{biblatex}

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