et al.

08:53 May 7, 2019 

Well in that case, it makes sense to have Arabic answers!!

08:52 May 7, 2019 

In practice it doesn't matter what the full form of the abbreviation "et al." is in Latin, but in case anyone ever needs to know, it is not "et alia", as the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary says, because "alia" is neuter plural and authors/editors are never neuter. It stands for "et alii" (masculine), or, in principle, "et aliae" (feminine), if all the authors/editors are women. In other contexts it could stand for "et alia" (and other things), but "et al." rarely occurs except in bibliographical references like this.

02:59 May 7, 2019 

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23:53 May 5, 2019 

Why all the Arabic answers to a supposedly English monolingual question?

23:13 May 5, 2019 

WHY are answers in Arabic in an En>En question? I changed it to En>Ar as that seems to be required and it's been changed back to En>En?

20:38 May 5, 2019 

When you cite a book or article in an academic publication, you put the author's or editor's name if there is only one, and both authors'/editors' names if there are two, but if there are three or more authors or editors you put the name of the first one followed by "et al." (Latin, an abbreviation of "et alii", meaning "and others", as you've been told). There are some variations according to which academic style the publication is using, but in most cases "et al." is used like this when there are three or more authors or editors. Here, it means that the book New Conflict Dynamics was edited by Rasmus Alenius Boserup and at least two other people.