diff --git a/templates/pubs.html b/templates/pubs.html
index de7fbeba885c93410ce1e70a21160bd363e65903..79002eeca98b9de0d2c89aa99590d163cc8619dc 100644
--- a/templates/pubs.html
+++ b/templates/pubs.html
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@
       <div class="card-text">
         <h4>{{ count + 1 - loop.index }}) <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/{{ card.bibcode }}/abstract">{{ card.title }}</a></h4>
 	<p>
-	{% if card.author_count > 1 %}
-        &emsp; {{ card.first_author_norm }} et al.,
-	{% else %}
-	&emsp; {{ card.first_author_norm }},
+	{% if card.author_count %}
+	  {% if card.author_count > 1 %}
+          &emsp; {{ card.first_author_norm }} et al.,
+	  {% else %}
+	  &emsp; {{ card.first_author_norm }},
+	  {% endif %}
 	{% endif %}
 	<i>{{ card.bibstem }}</i>, {{ card.year }}
 	{% if card.bibstem != "arXiv"  %}