APA 6th edition - first name abbreviation shown in in text citation

rick.escalade
I am citing two different articles from Stebbins, but in-text it says (Stebbins, R. 1982). I checked several times that the names for both are spelled exactly the same in my zotero library, but the problem still occurs. Any idea?
  • damnation
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
  • rick.escalade
    There it gives the advise to check the names for the exact same spelling, what I have already done and I do not want to change the citation style!
  • damnation
    It is also telling you that the citation style disambiguates between papers of the same author by adding the first name initial.
    APA does this correctly as per their guidelines.
    So you options are to change to an alternative style (there is several thousand to choose from) or change the style (a very easy change). But if you are supposed to write per APA guidelines I would not change this.
  • bwiernik
    If it is saying Stebbins, R. With the initial coming after the name, that would suggest you have the name stored incorrectly in Zotero. The APA style will put the initial first (and this is correct APA style when multiple authors have the same last name).

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