display first name in creator column

erazlogo · 2026-04-29T20:29:49+00:00

With Zotero 8, Creator column only displays creators' last names. This makes it impossible to distinguish among works by different people with the same last name (family members, for example--think of personal correspondence in biographic research). Is there a way to add the first name to "creator column" in preferences? Thanks!

erazlogo · 2026-04-30T13:11:58+00:00

I guess this has been happening before Zotero 8 and has been requested in the past:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/37831/show-creators-first-name-in-addition-to-last-name-in-the-middle-pane
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/106042/creator-and-medium-fields

This feature is planned in Zotero: https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/2831

There is also a plugin that does this but it may not be working with the latest version of Zotero: https://github.com/MuiseDestiny/zotero-style

mjthoraval · 2026-04-30T14:34:52+00:00

You can check if this plugin can do what you want:
https://github.com/github-young/zotero-better-authors