Word Plugin Citation Issue

Quinn_Ye

Hi Zotero Team,

I have been experiencing errors when I insert citations and bibliography.

Here's an example:
1, I meant to cite this paper in my thesis in AMJ style

"Xu, D., Zhou, K., & Chen, S. 2021. The Impact of Maoist Communist Ideology on Patent Applications and Infringement. Academy of Management Journal, (ja)."

2, The correct in-text citation turned out to be like this : (Xu, Zhou, & Chen, 2021). This is correct when I insert the citation, but when I try to add the bibliography the intext citation changed to (D.Xu, Zhou, & Chen, 2021), which is not what I needed.

How can I keep a consistent citation format when I refresh or add the final bibliography?
Thanks for your help!

Kind Regards,
Quinn

bwiernik

It is correct AMJ style to add the first author initials if you are citing multiple different “Xu” authors with different given names

See also https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

Quinn_Ye

Hi Zotero Team,

I have attempted to edit the AMJ Style with the style editor, but I could not find the AMJ style in the list. I have installed AMJ and AMR styles, but I could only find AMR in the style editor list.
I also tried to reinstall the AMJ style, but still, I couldn't find the AMJ style in the style editor.

dstillman

If you view the source on the styles page you can see that it's just a dependent style pointing to AMR. That's the one you'd have to edit.