Upgrade StorageConsistent one word author in text citation
I seek suggestions on how to resolve two related and recurring problems I am experiencing in Zotero. A quick search of discussions in the Forum history has not led me to answers, possibly because I'm not using received terminology.
Essentially I want to reduce in text citations to the author surname only, and where there is more than one author to the author surname plus et al. only.
On the first problem, I use the two field author entry format and find that at different times just the author surname or the author surname with various first names and or initials(depending on the year of publication)is imported. I just want to see the author surname in my text, followed by year and page.
I cite a lot of government reports with multiple authors and find that all three or four long author names are pulled into the text citation. I just want to see the first author name plus et al., in my text.
Could you please point me to guidance on these problems?
If the solution involves manually adjusting the CSL I need to be told where precisely to go to re-set code.
Thanks in advance.
Essentially I want to reduce in text citations to the author surname only, and where there is more than one author to the author surname plus et al. only.
On the first problem, I use the two field author entry format and find that at different times just the author surname or the author surname with various first names and or initials(depending on the year of publication)is imported. I just want to see the author surname in my text, followed by year and page.
I cite a lot of government reports with multiple authors and find that all three or four long author names are pulled into the text citation. I just want to see the first author name plus et al., in my text.
Could you please point me to guidance on these problems?
If the solution involves manually adjusting the CSL I need to be told where precisely to go to re-set code.
Thanks in advance.
See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
and https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3879/stupid-new-user-multiple-author-style-question/
for reference on the respective issues.
Particularly, for (1): https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#changing_disambiguation
For (2), you'd have to set:
et-al-min="2" et-al-use-first="1"
within the citation branch.Based on your question, you may have to set this based on the type of item so that only reports list a single author.
EDIT: code fix, per adamsmith
et-al-min="2" et-al-use-first="1"in the line starting with<citation(the option names noksagt suggests are for an older version of CSL no longer in use.If you tell us which style you're using now, I can also give you the full line to replace.