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Asked 2 May 2018

How to auto convert this citation (Abrahão, Moriguchi, and Andrade 2016) to Abrahão et al., (2016) in Mendeley ?

when using Chicago style, Mendeley always cite like this " (Abrahão, Moriguchi, and Andrade 2016)", while t need to use this style "Abrahão et al., (2016)"

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Abdallah Hussien Fathy
Ain Shams University
Look at the tutorial in the following link
Bijit Biswas
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar
You can always edit manually in word file. Mendeley many times gives wrong references.Edit as per your need.

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