How to omit given name in citation for creators that use Eastern name order?

jandavid
edited 6 days ago
Zotero's toggle for single-field creator names works for generating bibliography entries that respect authors that use Eastern name order. However, for in-text citations (with the Word plugin, for instance) it (expectedly) includes the full name whereas it should only include the first ("family name") component of it. How to handle this?

For instance, British linguist of Chinese heritage Li Wei (family name: Li; given name: Wei) is using Eastern name order, so bibliography entries look like this:

Chicago author-date:
Li Wei, and Lesley Milroy. 1995. “Conversational Code-Switching in a Chinese Community in Britain: A Sequential Analysis.” Journal of Pragmatics 23 (3): 281–299.

APA:
Li W., and Milroy, L., (1995). 'Conversational Code-Switching in a Chinese Community in Britain: A Sequential Analysis.' Journal of Pragmatics 23(3): 281–299.

In-text citations should look like this (Li and Milroy 1995) or (Li & Milroy, 1995).
What I get currently is (Li Wei & Milroy, 1995), with the given name included.

Any way how to configure that?

Using the two-field creator name option would produce the right citation, but the wrong bibliography entry. When the author is in first place, perhaps the comma could be ignored, but with Chicago when the other is in second or subsequent places it would end up Wei Li which is wrong.
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