Help: removing first name from subsequent reference

juliette roussin

Hi everyone,

I am trying to modify a French style called "infoclio sans majuscules". How can I remove the author's first name while keeking his or her family name in a subsequent note?
Thanks!

adamsmith

add form="short" to the line starting with <name...

juliette roussin

Thanks… But it doesn't seem to work, I still get both names. It's as if I hadn't done anything.

adamsmith

I need to see the style to say more. Post as a public gist to gist.github.com and provide the URL here.

juliette roussin

Ok, here is the link:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6716372

Thanks a lot

adamsmith

currently you use the same macro for complete & subsequent citations, so that can't work.

What you want to do is to create a macro along these lines:
<macro name="author-short">
<names variable="author">
<name sort-separator=", " form="short"/>
<label form="short" prefix=",&#160;" suffix=""/>
<et-al font-style="italic"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
</substitute>
</names >
</macro>
and then use that in the subsequent citation.

juliette roussin

I created the macro as you told me, but I still got both names. And if I suppress the "author-or-editor" macro, or add "short", both author's first and family name disappear, which is not something I want either. Is there something I forgot to do?

adamsmith

you also need to use the macro in the citation, see e.g. this version of the style:
https://gist.github.com/adam3smith/6716822
line 391 to be specific

juliette roussin

Thank you so much! It worked. I'm new at this and was completely lost.
Thanks again