Huge citations

[mjpost]

It has become practice to include huge author lists (the Llama 3 paper has something like 500). We current render the complete list, which for this paper consumes four columns and is unwieldy. Is there a way to update natbib to truncate such author lists to something like "Grattafiori and N others"? I would suggest a threshold of 20.

[mjpost]

CC: @davidweichiang @danielgildea

[davidweichiang]

Just a quick comment that APA (which ACL is based on) does limit it to 20.

https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/more-than-20-authors

[danielgildea]

I modified the .bst to print the first 19 names and then "and XX others". I like this style personally.

The APA style says to print "..." and the last author's name. That would take some more work in terms of .bst programming.

[mjpost]

I like our current version better (and am already using it).