How to 'activate' et al. in bibliography with a .csl file?

[beausoleilmo]

Description

Problem

I'm adding references to a text with a custom .csl file for the styling. When an article has multiple authors, it usually adds 'et al.' after 3 authors (see https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/9b37385e700b67ed908ebf3ac60321c60405b7e0/evolution.csl#L123C13-L123C18). However, when I'm using the evolution.csl, it never uses et al in the 'References' section (the in text is ok).

Do I need to turn on something so the list of authors is with 3 authors and then et al.?

Versions

macOS 26.1

quarto --version
1.8.26

Files

evolution.csl : https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/evolution.csl

The quarto file :

---
title: "test"
bibliography: ref.bib
csl: evolution.csl
---

test [@tobiasAVONETMorphologicalEcological2022].

ref.bib

%% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk.
%% https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/

%% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-8) 


@article{tobiasAVONETMorphologicalEcological2022,
	abstract = {Abstract             Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species-level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for all birds, including six ecological variables, 11 continuous morphological traits, and information on range size and location. Raw morphological measurements are presented from 90,020 individuals of 11,009 extant bird species sampled from 181 countries. These data are also summarised as species averages in three taxonomic formats, allowing integration with a global phylogeny, geographical range maps, IUCN Red List data and the eBird citizen science database. The AVONET dataset provides the most detailed picture of continuous trait variation for any major radiation of organisms, offering a global template for testing hypotheses and exploring the evolutionary origins, structure and functioning of biodiversity.},
	author = {Tobias, Joseph A. and Sheard, Catherine and Pigot, Alex L. and Devenish, Adam J. M. and Yang, Jingyi and Sayol, Ferran and Neate-Clegg, Montague H. C. and Alioravainen, Nico and Weeks, Thomas L. and Barber, Robert A. and Walkden, Patrick A. and MacGregor, Hannah E. A. and Jones, Samuel E. I. and Vincent, Claire and Phillips, Anna G. and Marples, Nicola M. and Monta{\~n}o-Centellas, Flavia A. and Leandro-Silva, Victor and Claramunt, Santiago and Darski, Bianca and Freeman, Benjamin G. and Bregman, Tom P. and Cooney, Christopher R. and Hughes, Emma C. and Capp, Elliot J. R. and Varley, Zo{\"e} K. and Friedman, Nicholas R. and Korntheuer, Heiko and Corrales-Vargas, Andrea and Trisos, Christopher H. and Weeks, Brian C. and Hanz, Dagmar M. and T{\"o}pfer, Till and Bravo, Gustavo A. and Reme{\v s}, Vladim{\'\i}r and Nowak, Larissa and Carneiro, Lincoln S. and Moncada R., Amilkar J. and Matysiokov{\'a}, Beata and Baldassarre, Daniel T. and Mart{\'\i}nez-Salinas, Alejandra and Wolfe, Jared D. and Chapman, Philip M. and Daly, Benjamin G. and Sorensen, Marjorie C. and Neu, Alexander and Ford, Michael A. and Mayhew, Rebekah J. and Fabio Silveira, Luis and Kelly, David J. and Annorbah, Nathaniel N. D. and Pollock, Henry S. and Grabowska-Zhang, Ada M. and McEntee, Jay P. and Carlos T. Gonzalez, Juan and Meneses, Camila G. and Mu{\~n}oz, Marcia C. and Powell, Luke L. and Jamie, Gabriel A. and Matthews, Thomas J. and Johnson, Oscar and Brito, Guilherme R. R. and Zyskowski, Kristof and Crates, Ross and Harvey, Michael G. and Jurado Zevallos, Maura and Hosner, Peter A. and Bradfer-Lawrence, Tom and Maley, James M. and Stiles, F. Gary and Lima, Hevana S. and Provost, Kaiya L. and Chibesa, Moses and Mashao, Mmatjie and Howard, Jeffrey T. and Mlamba, Edson and Chua, Marcus A. H. and Li, Bicheng and G{\'o}mez, M. Isabel and Garc{\'\i}a, Natalia C. and P{\"a}ckert, Martin and Fuchs, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Ali, Jarome R. and Derryberry, Elizabeth P. and Carlson, Monica L. and Urriza, Rolly C. and Brzeski, Kristin E. and Prawiradilaga, Dewi M. and Rayner, Matt J. and Miller, Eliot T. and Bowie, Rauri C. K. and Lafontaine, Ren{\'e}-Marie and Scofield, R. Paul and Lou, Yingqiang and Somarathna, Lankani and Lepage, Denis and Illif, Marshall and Neuschulz, Eike Lena and Templin, Mathias and Dehling, D. Matthias and Cooper, Jacob C. and Pauwels, Olivier S. G. and Analuddin, Kangkuso and Fjelds{\aa}, Jon and Seddon, Nathalie and Sweet, Paul R. and DeClerck, Fabrice A. J. and Naka, Luciano N. and Brawn, Jeffrey D. and Aleixo, Alexandre and B{\"o}hning-Gaese, Katrin and Rahbek, Carsten and Fritz, Susanne A. and Thomas, Gavin H. and Schleuning, Matthias},
	doi = {10.1111/ele.13898},
	editor = {Coulson, Tim},
	file = {/Users/marco/Zotero/storage/BL75EUQE/Tobias et al. - 2022 - AVONET morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds.pdf},
	issn = {1461-023X, 1461-0248},
	journal = {Ecology Letters},
	langid = {english},
	month = mar,
	number = {3},
	pages = {581--597},
	shorttitle = {{{AVONET}}},
	title = {{{AVONET}}: Morphological, Ecological and Geographical Data for All Birds},
	urldate = {2025-08-31},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2022},
	bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898}}

It generates this output :

test
test (Tobias et al. 2022).

References
Tobias, J. A., C. Sheard, A. L. Pigot, A. J. M. Devenish, J. Yang, F. Sayol, M. H. C. Neate-Clegg, N. Alioravainen, T. L. Weeks, R. A. Barber, P. A. Walkden, H. E. A. MacGregor, S. E. I. Jones, C. Vincent, A. G. Phillips, N. M. Marples, F. A. Montaño-Centellas, V. Leandro-Silva, S. Claramunt, B. Darski, B. G. Freeman, T. P. Bregman, C. R. Cooney, E. C. Hughes, E. J. R. Capp, Z. K. Varley, N. R. Friedman, H. Korntheuer, A. Corrales-Vargas, C. H. Trisos, B. C. Weeks, D. M. Hanz, T. Töpfer, G. A. Bravo, V. Remeš, L. Nowak, L. S. Carneiro, A. J. Moncada R., B. Matysioková, D. T. Baldassarre, A. Martı́nez-Salinas, J. D. Wolfe, P. M. Chapman, B. G. Daly, M. C. Sorensen, A. Neu, M. A. Ford, R. J. Mayhew, L. Fabio Silveira, D. J. Kelly, N. N. D. Annorbah, H. S. Pollock, A. M. Grabowska-Zhang, J. P. McEntee, J. Carlos T. Gonzalez, C. G. Meneses, M. C. Muñoz, L. L. Powell, G. A. Jamie, T. J. Matthews, O. Johnson, G. R. R. Brito, K. Zyskowski, R. Crates, M. G. Harvey, M. Jurado Zevallos, P. A. Hosner, T. Bradfer-Lawrence, J. M. Maley, F. G. Stiles, H. S. Lima, K. L. Provost, M. Chibesa, M. Mashao, J. T. Howard, E. Mlamba, M. A. H. Chua, B. Li, M. I. Gómez, N. C. Garcı́a, M. Päckert, J. Fuchs, J. R. Ali, E. P. Derryberry, M. L. Carlson, R. C. Urriza, K. E. Brzeski, D. M. Prawiradilaga, M. J. Rayner, E. T. Miller, R. C. K. Bowie, R.-M. Lafontaine, R. P. Scofield, Y. Lou, L. Somarathna, D. Lepage, M. Illif, E. L. Neuschulz, M. Templin, D. M. Dehling, J. C. Cooper, O. S. G. Pauwels, K. Analuddin, J. Fjeldså, N. Seddon, P. R. Sweet, F. A. J. DeClerck, L. N. Naka, J. D. Brawn, A. Aleixo, K. Böhning-Gaese, C. Rahbek, S. A. Fritz, G. H. Thomas, and M. Schleuning. 2022. AVONET: Morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25:581–597.

However, I see that the .csl file has the et al. tag :
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/9b37385e700b67ed908ebf3ac60321c60405b7e0/evolution.csl#L123C13-L123C18

I don't know why it is not formatting the authors properly in the 'Reference' section.

[mcanouil]

I'm not sure to understand.
The CSL and the output are correct.
"et al." is not for the references, it's for the citation.
I believe you are misunderstanding the CSL specification.

The style is working as expected/intended (from your link), it shows "citation" not "bibliography": <citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" ...

So, if you want the bibliography to have the same formatting as citations for the authors, then choose a style that does this or modify the bibliography specification of the CSL (https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/evolution.csl#L138)

Note that this is unrelated to Quarto CLI and is all about CSL.

[beausoleilmo]

Oh! I see... I was looking for the wrong thing. Makes sense. Sorry about this.