Disambiguation without Space Between Initials and Family Name

John Percival · March 11, 2022

Hello,

I am trying to adjust an author-date style so that when using disambiguation, I get JHPercival 2022; RJPercival 2021; Smith 2020, i.e. initials are added to the front of the family name without a space.

I have tried fiddling with the givenname-disambiguation-rule property, but all I can get is JH Percival 2022; RJ Percival 2021; Smith 2020, with spaces between the initials and family names - which adds an extra word to my count!

Is it possible to achieve this using CSL in Zotero?

I've tried exploring the name-part elements, but to no avail, e.g.

John Percival · March 11, 2022

Does this answer my question?
return ret.join(" ");
https://github.com/Juris-M/citeproc-js/blob/aa2683f48fe23be459f4ed3be3960e2bb56203f0/src/util_names.js#L254

bwiernik · March 11, 2022

CSL does not have that capability other than for some Asian languages (where spaces are never used between names).

If you are trying to disambiguate but want to save words, I would really suggest instead always adding a year-suffix instead. That will be much easier for your grant reviewers to read.

Such as this style: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-no-disambiguation.csl

John Percival · March 12, 2022

Thanks @bwiernik. I would like distinct authors to be visible in the reference itself rather than in a year-suffix (which must be looked up in the bibliography) so what I might end up doing is adding a ##suffix## to the givenname name-part, which I can then do a search-and-replace on in my word processor to eliminate the ##suffix## and the following space. Not exactly elegant, but it would do the trick.