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I am using a template acmart of ACM. I have a problem: my reference list always displays all author names of an article.

Is there an option for limiting the number of authors in a reference with the ACM template ?

bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}

bibliography{bibliography}

Thanks

You can modify ACM-Reference-Format.bst to truncate lists of people. There are three places where you need to change a few lines.

You can get the modified file directly from https://gist.github.com/moewew/1f7c74b4229fdb44bc9f05d6e96d915a or apply the following patch to ACM-Reference-Format.bst to obtain ACM-Reference-Format-num.bst.

--- ACM-Reference-Format.bst    2018-10-21 23:12:52.000000000 +0200

+++ ACM-Reference-Format-num.bst    2018-11-26 18:11:16.051275200 +0100

@@ -999,7 +999,14 @@

         %NO: BAD ORDER: {"{" s nameptr "{ff~}{ll}{, jj}{, vv}" format.name$ * "}" * 't := }

         %NO: BAD ORDER: {"{" s nameptr "{ff~}{ll}{, jj}{, vv}" format.name$ * "}" * 't := }

         {"bibinfo{person}{" s nameptr "{ff }{vv }{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ * "}" * 't := }

-        {"bibinfo{person}{" s nameptr "{ff }{vv }{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ * "}" * 't := }

+        {"bibinfo{person}{"

+         nameptr #5 >

+           { #1 'namesleft :=

+             "others" }

+           { s nameptr "{ff }{vv }{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ }

+         if$

+         * "}" *

+         't := }

       if$

       nameptr #1 >

         {

@@ -1033,7 +1040,12 @@

   numnames 'namesleft :=

     { namesleft #0 > }



-    { s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ 't :=  % get the next name

+    { nameptr #5 >

+        { #1 'namesleft :=

+          "others" }

+        { s nameptr "{vv~}{ll}" format.name$ }

+      if$

+      't :=  % get the next name

       nameptr #1 >

         {

           namesleft #1 >

@@ -1072,7 +1084,13 @@

     { namesleft #0 > }



     {

-      "bibinfo{person}{" s nameptr "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ * "}" * 't :=

+      "bibinfo{person}{"

+      nameptr #5 >

+        { #1 'namesleft :=

+          "others" }

+        { s nameptr "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" format.name$ }

+      if$

+      * "}" * 't :=



       nameptr #1 >

         {

Change the #5 to #<number of people before truncation>. The default truncation for citation labels is #2.

documentclass[british]{article}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{babel}

usepackage{natbib}



usepackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}

@book{many,

  author    = {Anne Uthor and William Riter and Connie Ontributor and Emma Ditor

               and Anne Elk and James Hacker and Sophie Cribe},

  title     = {The Book of Many Authors},

  year      = {1980},

  publisher = {P. Ublisher},

  address   = {Place},

}

end{filecontents}





begin{document}

cite{many}

bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format-num}

bibliography{jobname}

end{document}

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