do not translate. It is left the same in English, as it is actually Latin.

after names, etc.

Sorry! I made a mistake before.

"Et al" is commonly used in English.

UNLESS your client uses an internationally adopted style such as Vancouver (which uses "et al."), it is more common to use "y cols. (y colaboradores) or "y otros." The most common is "y cols."

I wrote the style manual for PAHO (regional office of the World Health Organization), and we debated whether to use "et al." or "y cols." in Spanish. When it was decided to adopt the Vancouver system for all languages, we ended up with "et al.," but before that, for many years PAHO used "y cols."



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I have re-read your question more carefully. For your legal text, I would stick with \"y otros.\" For the citation of authors, everything I said above still stands.

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I assumed your question was for English-Spanish. If your source is Spanish, then of course you would say \"et al.,\" which is even more common in English than it is in Spanish.

comma after 'al'!

Et al. - An abbreviation for et alius which means "and another" or et alii which means "and others."
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/html/legal.html

... for references with three or more authors, give the first author's last name and "et al.", the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "et alius" ("and others"), and ...
facstaff.bloomu.edu/mwood/paper-530.html -



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period after \'al\'! (not comma)