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.
Four or More Authors. You can either include each author's last name as in the example above, or you can provide the first author's name followed by et al (meaning and others). Tips: 1  If you use the et al abbreviation in your in-text citation, you should also use it on your Works Cited list. 2  If you list each author's name, list them in the order they appear in the original material. 3  Use this format for your Works Cited page as well.