Hello,
I’m having an issue with my in-line citations when using Paperpile for Microsoft word wherein any source with more than two authors is formatted with all of the author names in the in-text citation (ie. Author1, Author 2, Author 3 rather than FirstAuthor et al). I have not had this issue with the Paperpile plugin for Google Docs, but the piece of writing I’m working on needs to be edited in Word. I have seen this issue raised in posts from several years ago, and responses suggested this was a style issue, but I am using Harvard style so the format should use et al
Any recommendations on how to fix this?
Welcome to our forum, @G_Pep. This does indeed sound like a style code-related issue, but we need more info to investigate. Could you let us know which exact version of Harvard you are using so we can try to reproduce? Could be a screenshot of the plugin settings dialog. Let me know.
Thank you @vicente. I’ve had the same problem with two different styles, both variants of Harvard. The first one which I have used with googledocs without issue is University of York - Harvard, the other is University of York - Harvard - Archaeology
Thanks for the revert, @G_Pep. On my end, both styles appear to be working correctly, with et al. being used when there are 4 or more authors. Would you mind sharing the doc or a new doc where you reproduce the issue, so we might take a look? You may share via chat or email support@paperpile.com.
Did you find a solution? I am having a similar issue. It is only happening on some citations others appear as they should with (First Author, et al), others list all authors in-text (in the paper). There does not seem to be a way to modify the specific papers that are having this issue..I have selected Harvard, Cite them right 12 and 14, to see if this will fix the problem and it makes no difference
Welcome to our forum, @Kevin_Geoghegan. To help us investigate, can you share an example document with us where the issue occurs? You can send the document to support@paperpile.com.