First name appearing in in-text citation?

milst1

For some reason, one particular author's first name keeps showing up in the in-text citations. It's driving me a little crazy. I can see that the entries were made with separated last,first naming. Is there a way to fix this easily, or do I have to manually edit it out? I'm on deadline. Thanks.

damnation

probably due to the author disambiguation. What's the name of the author and is there a similar citation in your bibliography? Also, what style are you using?

adamsmith

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

milst1

Author disambiguation...mmm. That's probably right.
APA.
The author's name appears in different forms in different pubs.
S.E. Kimes in some, Sheryl E. Kimes in others, etc.
So I need to standardize across all pubs she is in, despite the way it appears in the publication?

adamsmith

correct, yes. Always use the full name in Zotero.

milst1

Yeah, that fixed it. Pain in the neck, but it works.

Thank you very very much for your help, damnation.

psyguy

Thanks, that also helped me. I notice the duplicate citations are yet another painful inheritance of Mendeley.

lestevez13

Hello, I'm having this same problem but even when I changed the names in my library my document is still using the first name in my in-text citations. Does someone knows why is this happening or how can I fix it?

adamsmith

Check if this also happens in a new document.

HansonMA

I also had this same problem, and just tried adamsmith's suggestion. It does not happen in a new document. I suppose I can just copy/paste the whole document over without the incorrect citations and re-add them? But is there a better way to do this? Refreshing doesn't work.

dstillman

@HansonMA: See "Deleted Citations" on the support page linked page.