Setting etalmode=truncate and maxauthors=0 in the class options still truncates to et~al

[josephwright]

I have a manuscript for JCTC, and I have put the following on top of my LaTeX file (manuscript.tex):

\documentclass[english,journal=jctcce,etalmode=truncate,maxauthors=0]{achemso}

I expected this to not truncate any author lists in the references, but unfortunately the behaviour is the same as without the options: lists longer than 15 names are truncated.

Oddly, when running latex, a file acs-manuscript.bib is created: **

This is an auxiliary file used by the `achemso' bundle.
This file may safely be deleted. It will be recreated as required.

@Control{achemso-control,
ctrl-use-title     =  "no",
ctrl-etal-number   =  "15",
ctrl-etal-firstonly =  "yes",
}

So it seems that the options do not get set correctly in this temporary file. If I change the values in acs-manuscript.bib, e.g. setting ctrl-etal-number = "0", and ctrl-etal-firstonly = "no", then the correct full author list is generated when running BibTeX.

[josephwright]

The class file deliberately reset any options given at load time other than those which are not specified by the journal configuration. You need to do \setkeys{acs}{etalmode=truncate,maxauthors=0} after loading the class in order to override the standard settings.

If you can point me to an appropriate example in the published journal then I can of course alter the configuration file if appropriate.

[josephwright]

When submitting to JCTC, they told me I should include the full author list in my references. I had a look to see if I could find an example which had the same reference as I had, and indeed an actual published paper contains the full author list, it is reference 47 in this paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ct200512e

If you cannot access it, I could send you the PDF file of the paper (can I do that through bitbucket?)

[josephwright]

Fixed by 4a218a58c0fd743ee9f2c8d1fd275b474075399f.

[salotz]

I know this is really old. But I am having this issue. This code:

\documentclass[journal = acsodf, manuscript = article, layout = traditional]{achemso}
\usepackage[articletitle=true, etalmode = truncate, maxauthors = 10]{achemso}

Is giving me the acs-{my-file}.bib as:

This is an auxiliary file used by the `achemso' bundle.
This file may safely be deleted. It will be recreated as required.

@Control{achemso-control,
  ctrl-article-title  = "yes",
  ctrl-chapter-title  = "no",
  ctrl-doi            = "no",
  ctrl-etal-number    = "15",
  ctrl-etal-firstonly = "yes",
}

No matter what. If I use the setkeys like this:

\documentclass[journal = acsodf, manuscript = article, layout = traditional]{achemso}

\usepackage[]{achemso}
\setkeys{acs}{articletitle = true}
\setkeys{acs}{etalmode = truncate}
\setkeys{acs}{maxauthors = 10}

I get the correct acs-{file}.bib:

This is an auxiliary file used by the `achemso' bundle.
This file may safely be deleted. It will be recreated as required.

@Control{achemso-control,
  ctrl-article-title = "yes",
  ctrl-chapter-title = "no",
  ctrl-doi = "no",
  ctrl-etal-number = "10",
  ctrl-etal-firstonly = "no",
}

[josephwright]

If you load the class and the package, all bets are off!