APA with full first name?

jeanjeanne · January 4, 2016

Hello everyone! Does anyone have a download (or can tell me how to do it manually) for an APA style that has full first names for authors? It's such a tiny thing but I can't figure out how to do it.

Thanks so much.

adamsmith · January 4, 2016

remove all instances of initialize-with=". " from the style.
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
has general editing instructions.

jeanjeanne · January 4, 2016

@adamsmith Thanks so much! I don't know anything about coding but you made this easy, saving me a ridiculous amount of work on the backend. You just made this PhD student's day. ;)

skiss · April 27, 2018

Hi there, how do I do this only for the bibliography entries, not the citations?

adamsmith · April 27, 2018

For the most part you shouldn't have any first names in citations, no?

But if this is just for the ones inserted for disambiguating first authors, leave the instance under "author-short" in (this one: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/apa.csl#L107 )