deleting first name initiales/full first names in citations

TessaB
When making citations I would like it only last names and year to be visible. In the bibliography full names should still be shown.

How do I make this correction? It should be based on the Chicago Manual of Style (author-date).
  • adamsmith
    The instructions are exactly the same as for APA in the other thread - if it's not working you'd have to tell us step by step what you did to see what went wrong.
  • TessaB
    from the zotero support site I follow the link

    chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul

    then delete
    <option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>

    and press refresh.

    Nothing happens. I tried changing other minor functions such as
    <option name="et-al-min" value="3"/> --> <option name="et-al-min" value="4"/>
    which works just fine.

    I do not know if it has got anything to say but I am working from a MacBook.
  • adamsmith
    ok -
    so you first go to the test panel. (chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul)

    Then you have several citations by the same author - with different spelling of the first name - selected, right?
    In the sample citations in the middle of your screen, you see the first names/initials, right?

    Then you delete
    <option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>

    and nothing changes? That's odd.

    The only reason I can think of is that you have the authors put in the wrong way -
    they all need to be in the form "Smith, Adam" (or Smith, A.) If you have "Adam Smith" that either gets treated as just a last name, or, if you toggle the "switch to single field" option next to the author's name, as a corporate author (such as "Congressional Research Service") - in either case the first name would always be present, simply because Zotero doesn't treat it as a first name but as part of a last name/corporate name.
  • fbennett
    @TessaB: Which version of Zotero are you using? Some people have mentioned that refresh doesn't work for them in Z 2.1b2 with csledit.xul. With that version, it seems to be necessary to edit the style externally and reinstall it for the change to take effect.

    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15131/csleditxul-with-21-b2-no-dynamic-rendering/
  • adamsmith
    but then the other changes she(?) mentions shouldn't work either, right?
  • fbennett
    edited November 18, 2010
    Ah. I missed that. (But you never know.)
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