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update with a MWE:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}


\citep*{example1,example2}


\bibliographystyle{chicago}
\bibliography{mylist}
\end{document}

My bib list:

@article{example1,
  title={Title of example one},
  author={last1, first1 and last2, first2 and last3, first3},
  journal={Journal 1},
  number={123},
  year={2020}
}
@article{example2,
  title={Title of example two},
  author={last4, first4 and last5, first5 and last6, first6 and last7, first7},
  journal={Journal 2},
  number={234},
  year={2021}
}

The output is:

(last1, last2, and last3, 2020; last4, last5, last6, and last7, 2021)

I cite two papers in one command: \citep{paper1,paper2}. Paper1 has 3 authors, and paper2 has 4 authors. Is there a way to display all 3 names for paper one, but display authorA et al. for paper2?

Mico
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  • Please add a minimal working example (MWEB) of your current code for us to work on. – epR8GaYuh Jun 28 '21 at 06:16
  • Depending on your bibliography style, you are most likely looking for the options: mincitenames and maxcitenames. Or, if you want this to be consistent with your bibliography entries: minnames and maxnames. – Markus G. Jun 28 '21 at 08:36
  • I have my doubts that you are really using BibLaTeX. The reason is, that \citep{} and \citet{} are available there only via the natbib-option, but the proper BibLaTeX commands would be textcite{} and \parencite{}. It could still be that you are using BibLaTeX with natbib-compatability, but I would guess you probably use BibTeX with the \usepackage{natbib}. Depending on what is correct, the solution for your problem will be very different. – Manuel Weinkauf Jun 28 '21 at 10:46
  • It is not clear to me whether you want to set the number of names printed only for one particular entry or for all entries with the same number of authors. In the latter case, (max|min)(cite|bib)names is the right way to go, see also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1554/35864. But note that those values can be overruled by the uniquelist option (see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/69028/35864). If you are looking to show a particular number of names for a specific entry only, other ideas are needed. – moewe Jun 28 '21 at 16:00
  • I just realised that you asked a similar question before (https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/558055/35864). At the time I commented that a solution depends on many factors that you need to tell us about. I linked to pages explaining how you can create a helpful example document. Please follow that advice and tell us more about your current citation setup. – moewe Jun 28 '21 at 16:02
  • My apologies for forgetting that I struggled with the same problem months ago, as @moewe points out. I added a MWE. I was indeed using natbib. Thanks! – RandomBear Jun 30 '21 at 23:21

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If you want to show a truncated author list when using the natbib citation management package and the chicago bibliography style, you shouldn't use the \citep* and \citet* commands -- which, by design, show all authors in the citation callout. Hence, if you change \citep*{example2} to

\citep{example2}

you're all set in terms of generating a truncated parenthesis-style citation call-out.

If, for some reason, you need to show a citation call-out to both entries in a single parenthetis-style citation command, you could write

(\citealp*{example1}; \citealp{example2})

Hopefully, your document doesn't feature too many of these odd-ball cases...

Mico
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