et al. definition
et al. means "and others."
et al. is Latin and means ‘and the others’. In the References list at the end you must give all the authors’ names.
et al. which means that more than two people co-authored a research work, can be written as: et al 2009 or et al. 2009 or et al., 2009. ‘et al’ can also be in italics (et al) for all the cases above.
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et al. stands for “et alia” and means “and others”. You can use it for citing the papers with more than two authors. “et al.” is not italicized nor underlined. TeX assumes thet a period ends a sentence unless it follows an uppercase letter. So, put a \_ (where _ means “space”) in a sentence like “Smith et al. say that . . . ”.
et al. means “others”, or “his/her co-workers” (italic)