Authors' initials, bug?

juhani_suhonen · February 24, 2019

Hello.. it seems that I've encountered a long-standing bug with multiple authors with same surname. I have 8 references from Ralf Schwarzer in my library and with every source, the format is written similarly (last name Schwarzer, and first name Ralf) without leading or trailing spaces. So it's a single author who should not be disambiguated between citations. However, clicking refresh with my 111 page document adds author's initial R. for four different(!) citations. Any suggestions how to fix?

ps. I'm using APA 6th edition style with date 7/8/2018

bwiernik · February 25, 2019

Those four citations are likely to item(s) that you have deleted from your library (rather then merging). Delete those citations and re-insert them from your library (rather than from the “Cited items” section).

juhani_suhonen · February 27, 2019

Hello; and thank you - that was the case! I was not aware that Zotero somehow saves even orphaned entities.

bwiernik · February 28, 2019

Zotero embeds the citation data for cited items into the document so, for example, you can share the document with a colleague without access to your library and still have it work correctly.