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I'm writing about a javascript library. and i have the following example:

"The founder of this JavaScript library, Jason M. Saragih, wrote an article [1] with et. al, reviewing considerations on how to accelerate their approach."

I can see that this doesn't look right. How to best use the et.al in this case?

Notes:

library founder = 1 (Jason M. Saragih).

Article authors = 3 (Jason M. Saragih), (Simon Lucey), (Jeffrey F. Cohn)

Loizos Vasileiou
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    Why do you not want to say "wrote an article with "Simon Lucey and Jeffrey F. Cohn?" – TaliesinMerlin May 01 '19 at 14:10
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    It’s written et al., not et. al. It stands for et alii ‘and others’, and as you can see, it’s alii (or aliae for groups of women, alia for groups of inanimate entities) which is abbreviated and thus requires the stop, not et, which is a complete word. And as @TaliesinMerlin writes, there is absolutely no reason here to use et al. – I’d go so far as to say that it would be quite bizarre to do so. Et al. is only used in bibliographic references, and this is not a bibliographic reference, but a full sentence. – Janus Bahs Jacquet May 01 '19 at 14:35
  • "... Saragih, wrote, with two other authors, an article reviewing ..." – Hot Licks May 01 '19 at 15:11

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There's no need to use et al. in that sentence, but if you really want to, you'd need to write something like:

"Jason M. Saragih, the founder of this JavaScript library, et al. wrote an article reviewing considerations on how to accelerate their approach."

Et al. means and others. You cannot "write an article with and others."

Juhasz
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(New revision by virtue of an excellent comment)

"Jason M. Saragih, the founder of this JavaScript library, wrote, with others, an article reviewing considerations on how to accelerate their approach."

Richard Carnahan
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    Your compromise isn’t really a compromise – it’s just stripping the other two authors of their authorship. It’s also stripping Saragih of some of his foundership: as clarified in the question, he is the only founder of the library, but one of three authors of the article. – Janus Bahs Jacquet May 01 '19 at 14:37
  • I repent of my original response. I conflated one of the original responses with the original question and had a context error in my answer. I agree completely with the reply and have offered a proposed structure. – Richard Carnahan May 01 '19 at 15:30
  • Sounds like Morse code, but thank you friend – Loizos Vasileiou May 02 '19 at 16:34