et al. should be italicized

[Reported by MobiusPizza]

I noticed that et al. is not printed in italic with biblatex-ieee. In IEEE reference guide: www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf et al is italicized. I was informed this is a style issue not a biblatex issue.

Workaround at the moment with the following at the permeable: %Italicise et al.

\makeatletter
\def\act@on@bibmacro#1#2{%
  \expandafter#1\csname abx@macro@\detokenize{#2}\endcsname
}
\def\patchbibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\patchcmd}
\def\pretobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\pretocmd}
\def\apptobibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\apptocmd}
\def\showbibmacro{\act@on@bibmacro\show}
\makeatother

\patchbibmacro{name:andothers}{%
  \bibstring{andothers}%
}{%
  \bibstring[\emph]{andothers}%
}{}{}

josephwright / biblatex-ieee

et al. should be italicized #5