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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for explanation. Sorry if I've been reverting too 
hastly.
Did you test this "and others" within yade doc and if a few variant 
bibtex style?
Just to be sure it will not produce further jokes.
B


On 09/23/2016 05:29 PM, Jerome Duriez wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
>
> It is about paper manuscripts with "authoryear" references style (in 
> text):
>
> \documentclass[authoryear]{elsarticle} together with 
> \usepackage{natbib} typically.
>
>
> In such case, the older reference displays *in the main text* "and et 
> al." :
>
> "\cite{yade:doc2} made a great code" would give"Smilauer and et al. 
> made a great code" as you got it
>
> However, the references list, such as the one in 
> https://www.yade-dem.org/doc/publications.html 
> <https://www.yade-dem.org/doc/publications.html> would still be fine.
>
>
> Using "and others" in the BibTeX entry allows to solve the first 
> behavior (the main text) without modifying what appears in the 
> reference list. It will still be "Smilauer et al." in the reference list
>
>
> "and others" is indeed normally recognized by BibTeX, see 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/123600/latex-doesnt-recognize-et-al-in-the-bibliography 
> (the answers at least)
>
>
>