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I'm using the natbib package with the agsm bibliographic style to generate and use the bibliography in a report.

But whenever I cite an article having many authors, the layout in the document is 'Author et al.'

Which command can I use to have the following result: 'Author. F et al.', i.e. to italicize 'et al.'?

Alan Munn
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T. Arthur
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us (and also you) and add a minimal working example with bibliography (MWEB), that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}. – Bobyandbob Jul 22 '17 at 09:51

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There is no way to do this from within your source file, since the et~al. string is hard-coded into the agsm.bst file itself. But it's not too hard to make a modified copy of the .bst file to do what you want.

First locate the original agsm.bst file. You can find the exact path for your system by using kpsewhich agsm.bst from the command line. On a current TeXLive system it is in:

 /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/harvard/agsm.bst

Make a copy of this file, and call it e.g. agsm-italic-etal.bst. Put this in your local texmf folder: ...texmf/bibtex/bst/ or simply place it in the same folder as your source document if you only need this style for that document.

Now in the copied .bst file, search for et~al. and replace it with \emph{et~al.}. There should be five occurrences of it. Save your changes and in your source document use

\bibliographystyle{agsm-italic-etal}
Alan Munn
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