To spice up our academic publications and make them less dull I suggest replacing some of our “et al.”-s with “atl.”-s in our references. That’s short for “And the lads”.

Example

The first type systems in programming language context appeared in the 1950s, when the designers of the Fortran (Backus) and Algol-60 (Naur atl.) languages wanted to make numerical computations more efficient