global author and date editing
Is it possible in Zotero or via some other external tool, e.g. R, to clean-up all of the authors names to remove the full first names and only have initials. In the biological sciences I am unaware of any journals that require full author names. For example in my database I might have a citation with "Larson, Keith W." or "Larson, Keith.
Further, in the database I often have citations with "Larson, K", "Larson, K.", "Larson, KW", "Larson, K.W.", and "Larson, K. W.". Is there any way to have a consistent author style throughout my database? This would also apply to dates, e.g. I only need the year for my citations, not month day year, or month year.
Further, in the database I often have citations with "Larson, K", "Larson, K.", "Larson, KW", "Larson, K.W.", and "Larson, K. W.". Is there any way to have a consistent author style throughout my database? This would also apply to dates, e.g. I only need the year for my citations, not month day year, or month year.
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As to the original question, batch editing is planned for the 3.5 version, but until then aurimas is correct, there is no way to do this but manually.