1,5 spaced bibliography

perelun

Question 1:
I'm using the American Political Science Review citation style (or American Political Science Association, from my understanding it has the complete same structure?).
When I insert bibliography it becomes single space, while it before, and is what I prefer, was inserted as 1,5 spaced.

Question 2:
I have different authors with the same last name. When citing, in shows up in the document like this (C. Scott 2003). How can I avoid Zotero using the first name in the citation?

adamsmith

1. Yes, APSA and APSR are the same style. CSL doesn't support 1.5 spacing (for what it's worth, it's not something that I have ever seen used in US academia - APSR bibliographies are certainly single spaced). You can obviously change the formatting and spacing of the bibliography after it's been inserted.
If you follow these related instructions on changing Word styles: http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/word_default_font you can probably change that permanently in a document.

2. http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
If you can document that APSA/APSR wants less disambiguation we can change that on the repository.

perelun

Thanks for the response.

I don't know what you would refer to as documentation for less disambiguation. What I can say is that, no one I have spoken to at the faculty prefer to have first name listed in the text, even when there is an overlap with other authors. Is the only way to remove it, to manually edit the citation before publishing?

Maybe it would be possible to publish a citation style that has all the same features but with without the disambiguation?

adamsmith

there is some documentation on how to do this yourself here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
it's a little technical, but not that hard to follow.
Otherwise, to document this you'd either have to find a passage from the style guide (which I believe is online) or an example from APSR.