given name has two words in bibliography does not right

liang94818

I'm using zotero 6.0.5 with MS word.
when given name haing two words, for example:

Forename = Simon
Givename = Conway Morris

It now produces a bibliography like:
Simon C Morris

what i want is :
Simon C M

Is it a bug in Zotero or I need to modefy CSL file?

DWL-SDCA

You will need to:

1. say what style you are using; and
2. Better describe which Zotero fields contain the names.

In my English-language version the name labels last (name), first (name).
What you are using for name labels seems to be your translation from your language to English. Please tell us the name labels in the language as you see them in your version of Zotero.

If you mean:
Last = Simon
First = Conway Morris

then I'm puzzled with how you are getting "Simon C. Morris"

However, see my note below because this may not be the correct way to enter the name(!).

Is a citation style you developed?

Are the author's names entered as two fields or as a single field?

Could you have more than one Zotero record of the same item and you selected one that has an error in the name fields?

If you are citing the paleontologist, his name is:
first = Simon
last = Conway Morris. (a double last name, in his case not hyphenated)

Since the gentleman's first name is "Simon", I believe that you do not want "Simon, CM"

liang94818

The author's names are entered as two field in zotero. for example,
first name = Conway Morris (two words are separated with a space key)
last name = Simon

I get wrong bibliography when first name has two words with build in CSL styles, for example, American Chemical Society. I get
Simon, C. Morris;

what I want is
Simon, C. M.；

adamsmith

I can't replicate this with ACS style and that name. How exactly are you testing? What happens in a new Word document? What happens when using right-click --> Create Bibliography?

liang94818

I get same wrong result from Word document and right-click --> Create Bibliography. I find this will heppen when the second word in first name is in lowercase.

adamsmith

OK, that I can replicate. There's nothing in a CSL style that'd change this, no. Is there an example of this, though, that isn't a typo? I think lowercase words aren't initialized on purpose to deal with name particles, but it's certainly an edge case -- but I'd imagine a very rare one?

liang94818

example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008622317312319?via=ihub

the first author' name is Pei tao Xie.
first name = Pei tao
last name = Xie

Mang chinese's names have two words in first name.