I am preparing manuscript to journal named "annals of laboratory medicine" and for the reference part the instruction are as following
- If the manuscript has only 2 authors, use “and” and not a comma between their names
- For more 2 authors,use comma for all (including last 2 authors)
the expected results are
[Example 1] Yang SJ, Shin MG, Kim SH, Cho D, Kee SJ, Shin JH, et al. Usefulness of Track-C (total HCV core antigen) assay in anti-HCV positive patients. Korean J Lab Med 2004;24:244-9. Kim HY. Recent advances of adult stem cell research. Korean J Lab Med 2003; 23(S1):S69-73.
[Example 2] Sabbath KD, Ball ED, Larcom P, Davis RB, Griffin JD. Heterogeneity of clonogenic cells in acute myeloblastic leukemia. J Clin Invest 1985;75:746-53.
I tried editing style myself but couldn't set it as required here is my setting
and the results were
[Example 3] Parsa AA and New MI.
[Example 4] Pignatelli D, Carvalho BL, Palmeiro A and Maçut D
The [Example 3] worked as expected. However, for the [Example 4], it put "and" between the last two authors instead of ","
From the documentation of "and" in the following link: https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#name it is written that "and" specifies the delimiter between the second to last and last name of the names in a name variable. Still, what I want is using and only when there are exactly two authors. I cannot find the way to do this in the documentation
I also tried downloading and using the already made style from database (https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fannals-of-laboratory-medicine) but it still didnt work as expected
Could any one help me with this, please?