BibLaTex: How to shorten list of author groups in cites to "et al."? Consider the following situation:   The same group of authors has published several documents Only the last author has changed over time     Minimum Working Example (MWE):  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \usepackage[% backend=biber,% style=authoryear,% natbib=true,% maxcitenames=1,% ]{biblatex}%  \begin{filecontents}{bib.bib}      @article{Stiess.1996a,         author = {Stiess, Roger and Mueller, Jacob and Else, Something},         date = {1996},     }      @article{Stiess.1996b,         author = {Stiess, Roger and Miller, Jan and Mueller, Jacob and Barding, Tom},         date = {1996},     }      @article{Stiess.1999,         author = {Stiess, Roger and Miller, Jan and Mueller, Jacob and Sutter, Jaqueline},         date = {1999-10},     }  \end{filecontents}  \addbibresource{bib.bib}  \begin{document}      \cite{Stiess.1996a}     \par\medskip     \cite{Stiess.1996b}     \par\medskip     \cite{Stiess.1999}     \printbibliography  \end{document}     Screenshot of the result:      Description of the issue:  While the bibliography list looks completely fine, the citings inside the text body are way too long: While the first situation works fine with automatic adding et al., I want the same thing to appear in the second and third citings as well (to compress the width of the citings).  How to do so?  Unfortunately maxcitenames=1 does not work due to same author names.
Set limit to one author when using "et al." in biblatex In the header of my document I set the maximal author names to 2:  \usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, maxbibnames=9, maxcitenames=2, backend=biber]{biblatex}   Now, when I cite texts with two authors, LaTeX gives me the following:     (Author_A/ Author_B 2012: 232)   When I have three authors or more, LaTeX makes it:     (Author_A/ Author_B et al. 2012: 232)   But I want LaTeX to just name the first author if there are more than two authors ... like this:     (Author_A et al. 2012: 232)   Any tips on how to achieve this ?
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