Multiple bibliography items' citations and "et al."

[hack-r]

Apologies if this question is out of place or overly ignorant. I've just updated to econsocart.cls in the midst of drafting my first submission to Econometrica. I have a semi-large library of relevant citations exported from Zotero to a .bib file that's read into the .tex file with

\bibliography{my_bib} 
\bibliographystyle{econometrica}

I need to cite multiple bibliography items in-line. The full list of names for each citation is quite long, so I'll need to use et al. for the in-line citation and leave the full list of names for the actual bibliography. Is there a recommended way to accomplish this? I see this Stack Exchange answer that recommends using a .bst file with the natbib class, but I'm not sure if that's compatible with the econsocart / Econometrica way of doing things (or if perhaps there's an official econsocart .bst file used to achieve it)?

[edgaras-sakuras]

Hello,

usage of natbib package and some .bst for this task is fine.

I'll try to find is there any official .bst for this.

[sebacea]

@hack-r could you please confirm that by adding \usepackage{natbib} and

\bibliography{my_bib} 
\bibliographystyle{econometrica}

joint with a my_bib.bib file exported from Zotero in the compilation folder, you are able to use automatic references with \cite{referencekey}. I am not able to replicate your example. This is what I have as a resulte trying to cite \cite{hildenbrand_upper_1972}

Package natbib Warning: Citation `hildenbrand_upper_1972' on page 3 undefined o
n input line 187.

Thanks!

[sebacea]

including econometrica.bst solved my problem

[edgaras-sakuras]

econometrica.bst is not related to this class. The original plan was to write a new (more integrated) bst, but since it is not in our priority list, this will take some time.

Anyway, if econometrica.bst solves the problem, then go with it. Thanks @sebacea !

[edgaras-sakuras]

ecta-fullname.bst was added.