Citations of different authors sharing the same surname.

carvalhar

Dear all,

I need to cite two authors who share the same surname but have different given names. My automatic citation style does not distinguish between them. How can I configure it to include the first initial only for those authors with identical surnames?

Eg.: A. Doe (2022); J. Doe (2021); McDonalds (2005)

Thanks!

adamsmith

APA and Chicago styles do this automatically. It's basically
disambiguate-add-givenname="true" givenname-disambiguation-rule="primary-name-with-initials"

carvalhar

I'm using another format.
Where should I add this notation?

carvalhar

I found it, but it's not working as I'd like.

The result is Doe, John, 2005; Doe, Andrew, 2012 and I'd like only the initial



The code:


<citation et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" disambiguate-add-givenname="true" givenname-disambiguation-rule="primary-name-with-initials" collapse="year" delimiter-precedes-et-al="never">
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<!-- ordena primeiro pela macro autor -->
<key variable="issued"/>
<!-- em seguida pela data -->
<key variable="year-suffix"/>
</sort>
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<!-- citações entre parênteses, separando mais de um documento com ponto-e-vírgula -->
<choose>
<if match="any" disambiguate="true">
<text variable="title" form="short" font-style="normal"/>
</if>
</choose>
<choose>
<if type="broadcast motion_picture song" match="any">
<!-- documentos em que citação é pelo título -->
<group>
<text variable="title" form="short" suffix=", "/>
<text macro="issued-year"/>
</group>
</if>
<else-if type="musical_score" match="any">
<!-- documentos em que citação é pelo título -->
<group>
<text macro="author-short" suffix=", "/>
<text macro="issued-year"/>
<text macro="citation-locator" prefix=", "/>
</group>
</else-if>
<else>
<!-- do contrário é o formato padrão de autor e data separados por vírgula -->
<group>
<text macro="author-short" suffix=", "/>
<text macro="issued-year"/>
<text macro="citation-locator" prefix=", "/>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
</layout>
</citation>


adamsmith

Look at the author-short macro and fix the given name there

carvalhar

I found it but I don't have any idea how to edit it to appear only first letter and only when authors have same surname


<macro name="author-short">
<!-- Macro responsável por mostrar o autor na citação -->
<choose>
<if type="broadcast motion_picture song" match="any">
<text variable="title" form="short" text-case="uppercase" quotes="false"/>
</if>
<else-if type="musical_score" match="any">
<names variable="composer">
<name form="short" delimiter="; " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". " name-as-sort-order="all">
<name-part name="family"/>
<name-part name="given"/>
</name>
</names>
</else-if>
<else>
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" delimiter="; " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". " name-as-sort-order="all">
<name-part name="family"/>
<name-part name="given"/>
</name>
<et-al font-style="italic"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
<choose>
<if type="book">
<!-- uso do título quando não houver autor -->
<text variable="title" form="short"/>
</if>
<else>
<text variable="title" form="short" quotes="false"/>
</else>
</choose>
</substitute>
</names>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>