static pages – formatting php tags?

Hello

I’m a php/css newbie, so bear with me

With WP2, I’ve created a static page for listing contributors on my site, by simply using the php tag:
<?php wp_list_authors(‘optioncount=1’); ?>

which just lists them with generic formatting

Now for example, currently in my theme (blix), in single.php it uses the following:
<em class=”author”><?php the_author(); ?>

this formats the author name nicely with an icon etc.

But if I use the following in the static page:
<span class=”author”><?php wp_list_authors(‘optioncount=1’); ?></span>

wp_list_authors doesn’t get formatted in the way it does when displaying the single page.

I’ve tried looking through the docs, but no luck. I guess I’m being a complete idiot here! but any help?

thanks