Author name abbreviation issue

piratefred

I am having an issue with how Zotero writes author names in my bibliography. The citation style I'm using requires abbreviated authors' first names, e.g.
Simpson GG
But, in a few of my citations, it's showing up like this:
Simpson, George G.
It's only ~1/6 of my citations, and the rest are appearing correctly, with the exception of one book, in which the authors' names are not listed at all.

Here's the setup I'm using:
Zotero Standalone, v. 4.0.26.4
Microsoft Word 2013 with Zotero plugin
PNAS citation format

Thanks for any ideas!

adamsmith

How about in a fresh document with just a single citation of one of the problematic items -- same problem?

If so, export that item to Zotero RDF, open in a text editor, select all, copy, and paste to gist.github.com --> create a public gist and link to it from here.

piratefred

Still does it in a blank document.
Here's the gist:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a39647ae129008971b5d

adamsmith

so if you look at these in Zotero, they're wrongly entered:
Hutchinson and G. Evelyn would need to be in two separate field (look at how this looks in articles where the authors appear correctly).
There's a chance you can fix this by switching two one field mode and back (that's the white rectangle after the names), otherwise you'll have to fix this manually.

How did you import these items into Zotero? If you used the URL bar icon, do you have a URL where you imported it from (we'd want to fix this).

piratefred

OK, I think that's a problem with how I typed in the ones I manually entered. User error, unsurprisingly ^_^.