In-text Citations Problem for Word Plug-in APA

waddupimsteven · November 11, 2018

So typically APA's in-text citations involves only last name and the year of the source. But both Zotero and Mendeley somehow cites the authors' FULL name, I don't know why. Is there a way to edit this? Is there an updated citation rule for this?

bwiernik · November 11, 2018

It’s likely that you have your authors stored in Zotero as “First Last” in one field, rather than Last, First in the two-field author mode. In Zotero, click the bar icon to the right of the author name to switch from single-field (I.e., organization name) to two-field mode.

bwiernik · November 11, 2018

Another possibility is https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

waddupimsteven · November 13, 2018

Thanks! I fixed it now. It was the meta data and all of my authors was messed up after migrating from Mendeley somehow. I fixed it with connecting each one manually.