Unwanted change in references in my doc (ASA style)

ejempaka · September 9, 2015

Hi all,
I'm in the last 10 days of finalising my PhD and i just see appearing a few hours ago some changes (panic). So far, not in all the ref., just on those i might have been working on lately: it looks like if zotero had decided to change ASA style by adding the first name initials in front of the usual (name year) type of reference appearing until now. Does it make sense? does anybody know why and how to keep my old presentation style? (and if it could spread to the whole doc, if i refresh or so?)...
Thanks a lot in advance.
Em

fbennett · September 9, 2015

It's this: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

For APA, check each of the items cited that have the affected name as the first-listed author. If the names entered refer to the same person but differ in any way, set them to be exactly the same. If the given name actually does differ (e.g. "Smith, Ted" versus "Smith, Ralph"), then this is correct formatting under APA rules.

adamsmith · September 9, 2015

(I suspect, but don't know without checking, that ASA would be the same as APA in this respect)

fbennett · September 10, 2015

(Oops, wrong style, sorry. But that's the general story.)

ejempaka · September 10, 2015

Thanks a lot to both of you for your quick answer!
it was indeed about "disambiguation" (totally new to me): I followed the simple way and just checked that same author (here the European Commission) was encoded exactly the same way for all documents and it seems it settled the thing directly (relief! ;-)
(and yeah, ASA was for american sociological association, but solution is the same!).
Thanks again,
Have a nice day!