How to change all citations to "Omit Author"

saulhr · July 19, 2023

Hello, I'd like to change all the Zotero references by "omitting" the author from Chen et al (Chen et al, 2022) to Chen et al (2022). Is there a way to do this automatically in settings without having to change each citation please?

dstillman · July 19, 2023

No.

saulhr · July 19, 2023

Thanks. Disappointing.

adamsmith · July 19, 2023

I think there actually is, just not by changing that setting in bulk, but by modifying the citation style to omit the author. As opposed to switching all reference to omit authors, you wouldn't be able to un-omit authors, though.
If that's of interest, which style are you using?

saulhr · July 19, 2023

Cite Them Right (Harvard)

adamsmith · July 19, 2023

That's an easy one. You'd just have to delete


          <text macro="author-short"/>

(row 280 in the style)

General instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step