One person creating posts, but crediting multiple authors…

Hi All –

This seems to have been covered many times, but I hope to clarify what’s out there.

So my team will be posting articles, etc, to a WordPress blog. Those articles will be written by people who will never use WordPress, but they need to be credited on each post, sometimes more than one person to a post.

For example: ‘by [John Smith], [Duncan Troy] and [David Jones]’

(the square brackets would link to all posts by, or co-authored by, that author).

My question is how is this best achieved? Should I use categories / tags? Ideally I would use authors as it seems more ‘true’ semantically.

One more thing – could the authors be listed in a custom way, like so:

If one author: ‘by John Smith’
If two authors: ‘by John Smith and David Jones’
If three authors@ ‘by John Smith, Laura Hope and David Jones’
etc

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
John