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marricksyesterday at 4:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

There's only two authors! That's so rude!


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setgreeyesterday at 8:15 PM

It’s also not correct; et al. is conventionally applied to three or more authors (it means “and others,” plural)

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bjourneyesterday at 7:29 PM

Why? For all the automatic academic score tracking systems it doesn't matter one bit if it is Wulf et al. or Wulf and McKee.

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