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**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/export-to-html-table-with-abstract-bibtex-with-long-author-list/2401 "2020-11-10T10:48:42Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Sigbert\_Klinke](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Sigbert_Klinke)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/export-to-html-table-with-abstract-bibtex-with-long-author-list/2401/1 "2020-11-10T10:48:42Z")
Hi,
I’am exporting a bibliography with “HTML table (with Abstract & BibTeX)”. Some papers have more than 20 authors which all appear in the HTML table. Is there a way (without writing a custom export) just to export something like “First n author(s) et al.” to the HTML table?
Thanks Sigbert
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**Author:**  [@teertinker](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/teertinker)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/export-to-html-table-with-abstract-bibtex-with-long-author-list/2401/2 "2020-11-10T19:35:11Z")
I think the export filter used can be found here:
> **[JabRef HTML Export Filters](http://www.markschenk.com/tools/jabref/)**
just modify the layout file
line: ‘\format[Authors(LastFirst,InitialsNoSpace),HTMLChars]{\author}’
to: ‘\format[Authors(LastFirst,InitialsNoSpace,3,3),HTMLChars]{\author}’
and add it as a custom export…I think its not much hassle.
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**Author:**  [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/export-to-html-table-with-abstract-bibtex-with-long-author-list/2401/3 "2020-11-10T21:44:30Z")
You can also directly copy the original layout file from jabref and do the modification as suggested. All internal layouts are here
> **[JabRef/jabref](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/tree/master/src/main/resources/resource/layout)**
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> Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases - JabRef/jabref