etc.与et al.用在句末是否加.

 google搜索别人的说法，很少对这一问题澄清的。因此，很想把自己搜集到的权威资源共享下：

Use a period with abbreviations:

Dr. Espinoza arrived from Washington, D.C., at 6 p.m.
Notice that when the period ending the abbreviation comes at the end of a sentence, it will also suffice to end the sentence. On the other hand, when an abbreviation ends a question or exclamation, it is appropriate to add a question mark or exclamation mark after the abbreviation-ending period.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/marks/period.htm

另外给出一些自己论文中的例子(对于etc.与et al.用在句末，一个逗点足以表示结尾，所以千万别添加两个.啊)：
1. Early methods in semi-supervised learning were using mixture models and extensions of the EM algorithm, while more recent approaches could be summarized below: selft-training, co-training, tri-training, transductive SVMs and graph-based methods etc.
2. In 2004, a new framework of stream data mining was introduced by Fan et al.