Tailoring IEEE style

norambello
How would I go about modifying the IEEE citation style in the reference list to remove the letter of the first name of the author?

So, from
[87] N. Bello and C. Self, “Title” Mar. 01–02, 2021.

To
[87] Bello and Self, “Title" Mar. 01–02, 2021.

So, basically delete "N." from "N.Bello" and "C." from "C. Self".

It is not clear to me how to make changes in the Style Editor to obtain this? Thank you.
  • adamsmith
    it's setting form="short" on the name element of the authors.
  • norambello
    Let's see. I opened the style editor in IEEE and in the following section added form="short" as indicated:

    Michael Berkowitz
    mberkowi@gmu.edu


    It does not seem to work. Help?
  • bwiernik
    Can you post your edited style to gist.GitHub.com or pastebin.com and give a link here?
  • norambello
    Oh, I see that the code did not go through the forum comment.

    I am afraid I don't know how to do what you suggest. Help please?


    Just for reference: I am working out of the original IEEE style, no changes... all I need is to have authors mentioned with last name only, not the first letter of the first name.

    So, NOT:
    [87] N. Bello and C. Self, “Title” Mar. 01–02, 2021.

    Rather
    [87] Bello and Self, “Title" Mar. 01–02, 2021.

    Thanks.
  • damnation
    Line 107, add form="short".

    For pastebin:
    You go to pastebin.com, there is a big field were you can paste your code, give it a number under "paste name/title" click on "Create new paste". Now you copy that url and post it here. It'll be something like this: https://pastebin.com/qt3PgqH3
  • adamsmith
    And general instructions for editing styles are here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

    Note in particular the part about changing style title and id
  • norambello
    Thank you.
    Here it is: https://pastebin.com/Hepy1bU8

    If I add form="short" on line 107, nothing the style preview does not show that anything happens.
  • adamsmith
    That would be line 108 in that version, so
    <name form="short" and="text" et-al-min="7" et-al-use-first="1" initialize-with=". "/>
  • norambello
    Fantastic! Thank you. It works great!
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