Shorten authorship if more than 3 authors exist

18735
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Improvement
Summary: Shorten authorship if more than 3 authors exist
Priority: Minor
Status: Open
Created: 2016-09-15 11:59:27.97
Updated: 2016-09-15 11:59:28.104
        
Description: Unlike in botany, it is not recommended to abbreviate the name of the
author in zoology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author_citation_(zoology)#cite_note-4

If a name was established by more than three authors, only the first author may be given, followed by the term "et al.". The ParsedName rendering methods should do this - which means they should also try to parse the authorship into a team list of authors as the AuthorComparator already does. Authorteam parsing code could then be moved into the name parser.]]>