diff --git a/src/dataset/settings.py b/src/dataset/settings.py
index dcd4c91..063f22d 100644
--- a/src/dataset/settings.py
+++ b/src/dataset/settings.py
@@ -18,4 +18,7 @@ EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT = 3500
 PINECONE_INDEX_NAME = "stampy-chat-embeddings-test"
 PINECONE_VALUES_DIMS = EMBEDDINGS_DIMS
 PINECONE_METRIC = "cosine"
-PINECONE_METADATA_ENTRIES = ["entry_id", "source", "title", "authors", "text"]
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+PINECONE_METADATA_ENTRIES = ["entry_id", "source", "title", "authors", "text"]
+
+### MISCELLANEOUS ###
+MAX_NUM_AUTHORS_IN_SIGNATURE = 3
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diff --git a/src/dataset/update_dataset.py b/src/dataset/update_dataset.py
index 580c509..5761cc2 100644
--- a/src/dataset/update_dataset.py
+++ b/src/dataset/update_dataset.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from .text_splitter import TokenSplitter
 from .sql_db_handler import SQLDB
 from .pinecone_db_handler import PineconeDB
 
-from .settings import EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, EMBEDDINGS_DIMS, EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT, ARD_DATASET_NAME
+from .settings import EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, EMBEDDINGS_DIMS, EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT, ARD_DATASET_NAME, MAX_NUM_AUTHORS_IN_SIGNATURE
 
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -114,6 +114,6 @@ def get_authors_str(authors_lst: List[str]) -> str:
     if authors_lst == []: return 'n/a'
     if len(authors_lst) == 1: return authors_lst[0]
     else:
-        authors_lst = authors_lst[:3]
-        authors_str = ", ".join(authors_lst[:-1]) + " and " + authors_lst[-1]
+        authors_lst = authors_lst[:MAX_NUM_AUTHORS_IN_SIGNATURE]
+        authors_str = f"{', '.join(authors_lst[:-1])} and {authors_lst[-1]}"
     return authors_str
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