References appears with author's full names

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I face a problem with BibTeX, which for just two particular references appear with the author's full names. I used scholar google to get the BibTeX file. the references \cite{hughes2018comparison} and \cite{hughes2018dynamic} publishes in the same year and with the same first author that appears with authors full names. I don't like to show all the authors names in the main text like (Hughes, El Saeiti and Garca-Fi~nana, 2018) (Hughes, Komarek, Czanner and Garcia-Fi~nana, 2018). I like a (Hughes et al. 2018a) and (Hughes et al. 2018b).

I include another two references that publishes with same author and same year and appear like (McCulloch and Neuhaus, 2011a) (McCulloch and Neuhaus, 2011b)

How can I achieve this (Hughes et al. 2018a) and (Hughes et al. 2018b)?

Bibtex file here:

@Article{komarek2010discriminant,
  author    = {Kom{\'a}rek, Arno{\v{s}}t and Hansen, Bettina E and Kuiper, Edith MM and van Buuren, Henk R and Lesaffre, Emmanuel},
  title     = {Discriminant analysis using a multivariate linear mixed model with a normal mixture in the random effects distribution},
  journal   = {Statistics in medicine},
  year      = {2010},
  volume    = {29},
  number    = {30},
  pages     = {3267--3283},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
}

@Article{hughes2018dynamic,
  author    = {Hughes, David M and Kom{\'a}rek, Arno{\v{s}}t and Czanner, Gabriela and Garcia-Fi{\~n}ana, Marta},
  title     = {Dynamic longitudinal discriminant analysis using multiple longitudinal markers of different types},
  journal   = {Statistical methods in medical research},
  year      = {2018},
  volume    = {27},
  number    = {7},
  pages     = {2060--2080},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England},
}

@Article{hughes2018comparison,
  author    = {Hughes, David M and El Saeiti, Riham and Garc{\'\i}a-Fi{\~n}ana, Marta},
  title     = {A comparison of group prediction approaches in longitudinal discriminant analysis},
  journal   = {Biometrical Journal},
  year      = {2018},
  volume    = {60},
  number    = {2},
  pages     = {307--322},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
}

@Article{mcculloch2011prediction,
  author    = {McCulloch, Charles E and Neuhaus, John M},
  title     = {Prediction of random effects in linear and generalized linear models under model misspecification},
  journal   = {Biometrics},
  year      = {2011},
  volume    = {67},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {270--279},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
}

@Article{mcculloch2011misspecifying,
  author    = {McCulloch, Charles E and Neuhaus, John M},
  title     = {Misspecifying the shape of a random effects distribution: why getting it wrong may not matter},
  journal   = {Statistical science},
  year      = {2011},
  pages     = {388--402},
  publisher = {JSTOR},
}
@Comment{jabref-meta: databaseType:bibtex;}

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The problem here is that the authors of the two papers are different - "Hughes et al." would refer to two diferent sets of people. So biblatex includes more names in order disambiguate. You can disable this functionality with the uniquelist=false package option. For more details, see: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/251285/biblatex-same-first-author-same-year-cite-as-a-b-etc — Disenchanted Lurker, May 16 '19 at 10:59
@InquisitiveLurker - It would appear to be the case that the OP chose the biblatex tag in error. Hence, the posting isn't a duplicate of the posting you've referenced. — Mico, May 16 '19 at 11:04
There are some examples on, e.g., https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Natbib_citation_styles to show how this can be done with natbib. — Marijn, May 16 '19 at 11:05
@Marijn - If the OP uses a bibliography style such as agsm or dcu, there's nothing natbib can do to enable the display of truncated ("Hughes et al") citation call-outs. We really need to find out which bibliography style is being used. — Mico, May 16 '19 at 11:17
@Mico you're right of course - but if the OP has difficulty understanding exactly how everything works I thought they might be interested in a simple example that gives the desired result. — Marijn, May 16 '19 at 11:22
So, to summarise: We need to know, are you using biblatex or not. Also we'd like to see / have mentioned your bibliography style. — Oleg Lobachev, May 16 '19 at 11:31
@Mico now that OP has confirmed that they use natbib, I've retracted the dupe flag — Disenchanted Lurker, May 16 '19 at 11:31
@R.Saeiti My solution was for biblatex, based on the tag on your question. If you don't actually use the package, you should remove the biblatex tag. — Disenchanted Lurker, May 16 '19 at 11:33
@R.Saeiti - Your question about the lack of truncation of certain citation call-outs to FirstAuthor et al has been asked before. The agsm bibliography style as well as its close relative, the dcu bibliography style, have as one of their well-known distinguishing features a non-truncation of citation call-outs if the entries share the same first author but have different other authors. That's why you aren't getting citation call-outs of the form (Hughes et al., 2018a,b). Your best alternative is to find a different bibliography style. — Mico, May 16 '19 at 12:09
@Mico Not sure, but I think I show an example of another author (McCulloch and Neuhaus) who published two papers in the same year and appears as McCulloch and Neuhaus, 2011a and McCulloch and Neuhaus, 2011b. The agsm style distinguished this but not Hughes's papers. — R. Saeiti, May 17 '19 at 05:22
@Mico Thanks for the link, The second answer works with me. I added letters a and b in the year. I know this is not a good way, but it solves my problem. — R. Saeiti, May 17 '19 at 05:32
@R.Saeiti - On your first comment: If there are entries with the same two authors and the same publication year, no bibliography style that produces authoryear-style citation call-outs will have any problems producing the expected call-outs. What's "special" [!] about the agsm style (and the dcu style too, for that matter) is how they treat entries with (a) three or more authors with the same first-listed author, (b) the same publication year, and (c) [crucially] a different total number of authors. It's in such cases when agsm is set not to truncate the respective lists of authors. — Mico, May 17 '19 at 05:40
@Mico I see that for this reason agsm works good with authors McCulloch and Neuhaus and not for Hughes. Thanks for this explanation. — R. Saeiti, May 17 '19 at 06:09

References appears with author's full names

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