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I am using the following package for the bibliography on Overleaf:

\usepackage[bibstyle = numeric, citestyle=authoryear, citecounter, natbib, labelnumber, uniquename=false, maxbibnames  = 2, maxcitenames = 2]{biblatex}

Although this generates a problem.

For instance, when I have authors whose surname is more than 3 letters, such as:

@article{Zangaga023,
  title={...},
  author={Zangaga, Ausperin and Westminster, Christine and Lebronne, Mangue},
  journal={Journal of ...},
  volume={2},
  number={1},
  pages={1},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

When I use \textcite, I correctly get

"Zangaga et al. (2023)"

So there's nothing wrong.

However, if an author has a surname with less than 4 letters, e.g.:

@article{Wu02spatio,
  title={...},
  author={Xu, Jiajun and Wang, Jinchao and Li, Rui and Yang, Xiaojun},
  journal={Journal of ...},
  volume={2},
  number={1},
  pages={1},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

I get

"Xu, Wang, et al. (2023)"

instead of

"Xu et al. (2023)"

How can I solve this?

moewe
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  • This is due to the uniquelist feature https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/69028/35864 and has nothing to do with the number of letters in the name: just with whether or not different name lists would abbreviate to the same "... et al.". – moewe Oct 06 '23 at 12:12

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