To a Frenchman, everything is a platitude that is not a paradox. The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly Charles James Lever A platitude that nobody has expressed and that nobody has acted on is a great truth. The Ghost in the White House Gerald Stanley Lee It is tolerated to-day for no other reason than that it has cornered the platitude market.
Et al. is defined as an abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alia which means and others.. An example of et. al. used as an abbreviation is in the sentence, The article was written by Smith, Jones, Paul, et al. which means that Smith, Jones, Paul and others wrote the article. Origin of et al.
2. Use et al. in academic writing to abbreviate a list of three or more authors after the first citation. Attribute the first author and then write et al. to denote that there are more authors in the works cited list. 1  For example, âMonroe et al., 2013.â Or âAccording to Monroe et al., the study foundâ¦â. 2  Include a list of all the authors in the first citation, unless the sources has six or more authors.