Julien, Thanks, after fixing that line I was still having the same problem so kept looking in the style file and found a similar statement on line 1038 and took out space there too. All good now.
-Simon On 10/13/11, Julien Rioux <jri...@physics.utoronto.ca> wrote: > On 13/10/2011 11:20 PM, Simon Mushi wrote: >> Richard, >> Coincidentally, this happens with all the authordate family of >> styles, i.e. 1,2,3 and 4. Do you observe the same behaviour on your >> system? Using the APA style gives "Ahrens et al., 2000", which is >> _correct_, but I prefered authordate3's presentation of the bib >> itself. >> >> Line 268 of authordate3.bst has the following entry >> >> { ", {\em et~al.\}\relax" * } >> >> no spurious spaces here...anywhere else to look? >> >> Thanks, >> -Simon >> > > There certainly is an extra space on that line when I open > authordate3.bst from my tex distribution. To remove it delete the > backslash and the space that come after et~al. > > -- > Julien > >