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Gem to render ISO 690 XML serialisation into HTML
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Allow two et al. numbers, for print and for threshold #42

Closed opoudjis closed 1 year ago

opoudjis commented 2 years ago

At the moment, we have a single number threshold for displaying "et al.": If there are more than N authors, display the first N authors, followed by "et al."

In fact, we need two numbers: a threshold triggering "et al.", and the number of authors to display. That is how Chicago Manual of Style (followed by IEEE) works:

For more than ten authors (not shown here), list the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al.

If the print number is not supplied, it is the same as the threshold number.

opoudjis commented 1 year ago

So we will have:

opoudjis commented 1 year ago

@reeseplews FYI, the correct behaviour for IEEE et al. will be available next Metanorma release (in a week).