@Adamsmith, i learned that I have to check the output carefully the hard way. but here is still a problem I can not solve.

lets say the name of the author in the zotero library is
frangopol, D. M. with Frangopol as last name and D. M. as first name
Or another record
Frangopol as first name and Dan M as last name. regardless of which one I use it always gives me below citation in the word body. I do not know how to change/modify/fix my zotero library to get what the Emerald format ( lastname, year) produces. and somehow I do not have this problem with all other citations.


(D.M. Frangopol and K. Maute, 2003)
(Dan M Frangopol and K. Maute, 2003)
(Dan M Frangopol et al., 2004)

Frangopol, D.M., Kallen, M.-J. and Noortwijk, J.M. van. (2004), “Probabilistic models for life-cycle performance of deteriorating structures: review and future directions”, Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 197–212.

Frangopol, D.M. and Maute, K. (2003), “Life-cycle reliability-based optimization of civil and aerospace structures”, Computers and Structures, Vol. 81 No. 7, pp. 397–410.

Frangopol, D.M. and Maute, K. (2003), “Life-cycle reliability-based optimization of civil and aerospace structures”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 81 No. 7, pp. 397–410.

This very much looks like you have the same author entered in different ways which will produce this - he's one Dan M Frangopol and once D. M. Frangopol. Zotero tries to disambiguate the different citations by adding his first name. He should be Dan M Frangopol in every Zotero entry.

(This wouldn't quite explain the 2004 cite, but let's see what happens if you fix that up).

I keep his name in two field. first name and last name. I changed all his first names in all records to
Frangopo, Dan M but still the same except I get a and b although those two references are exactly the same except being collected from different search engines.

(Dan M Frangopol and Kurt Maute, 2003a)
(Dan M Frangopol and Kurt Maute, 2003b)

so then I deleted one of them and still the same.


I changed the first name to Dan M. still the same.

(Dan M. Frangopol and Kurt Maute, 2003)

-- but I transferred the same library to mendeley. and mendeley export it correctly to the document.

(Frangopol and Maute, 2003)

so I think it is more on style side. but this happens only for this and couple of other citations.

http://pastebin.com/jnWjk3gA

Those come out right for me.
(Frangopol et al., 2004; Frangopol and Maute, 2003)
Have you tried just those citations in a fresh document?

If they work correctly in an empty document, this is caused by something else, e.g. along the lines of what DWL suggests.

when i try to add another cite to this work in the paper, it offers me 2 cited work with exact same data.

that really does sound like a duplicate - how are you sure it's not?

cause I have only one in my library. but when I try to cite to it zotero offers me 3 items. 2 from "cited works" and one from "library"

by the way, I am not sure if it is related but sometimes zotero.exe gives me this error.

" you have modified this citation since zotero generated it. do you want to keep your modification and prevent future updates?

clicking .....
"

I think it comes from that fact that I changed some of my references in the text by hand(to fix it). and when I refresh the citations it asks me about all of them on by one again.

after testing with a new document. when I add the first one it is fine. when I add the second one. instead of adding (a) to it since there are two different paper with same first author. it adds the name of second and third author to the first one! and not only the second author but also the first name of the first author and second author.

here how it is
first shot:
(Baines et al., 2009)

Baines, T.S., Lightfoot, H.W., Benedettini, O. and Kay, J.M. (2009), “The servitization of manufacturing: a review of literature and reflection on future challenges”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 547–567.


second shot:

(Baines, Lightfoot, Benedettini, et al., 2009)
(Baines, Lightfoot and Kay, 2009)
Baines, T.S., Lightfoot, H.W., Benedettini, O. and Kay, J.M. (2009), “The servitization of manufacturing: a review of literature and reflection on future challenges”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 547–567.
Baines, T.S., Lightfoot, H.W. and Kay, J.M. (2009), “Servitized manufacture: Practical challenges of delivering integrated products and services”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 223 No. 9, pp. 1207–1215.

Third Shot:
(T. S. Baines, H. W. Lightfoot, Benedettini, et al., 2009)
(T. S. Baines, H. W. Lightfoot and Kay, 2009) (Grubic et al., 2009)

Baines, T.S., Lightfoot, H.W., Benedettini, O. and Kay, J.M. (2009), “The servitization of manufacturing: a review of literature and reflection on future challenges”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 547–567.
Baines, T.S., Lightfoot, H.W. and Kay, J.M. (2009), “Servitized manufacture: Practical challenges of delivering integrated products and services”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Vol. 223 No. 9, pp. 1207–1215.
Grubic, T., Jennions, I. and Baines, T. (2009), “The Interaction of PSS and PHM-a mutual benefit case”, Annual Conference of Prognostics and Health Management, San Diego, CA, September. Retrieved from http://72.27.231.73/sites/phmsociety.org/files/phm_submission/2009/phmc_09_49.pdf

Is this how the Emerald(harvard) style should work? not (a) , (b) style? No!
ref: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/guides/write/harvard.htm?part=2

I cleaned the library by merging duplicates and made a new file to start working with and this appeared. It also shows how the http link of Grubic comes to the citation at the end of paper! it is not the style of emerald. I think there is still more work to be done on style.

(I've been through the issues raised, and I don't see anything that points to problems in Zotero or in the citation processor. It's just a question of whether or not the style parameters should be adjusted slightly.)

my main concern is their First Name. I dont think they should appear even when we use the other authors last names instead of et al.

right now it brings their first name too on a fresh document.
in this specific example.

http://pastebin.com/FBvSjZZ2

T.S. is not needed. or L.H.

I should thank you guys all for the support. it is amazing. I feel much better.

and it _does_ suggest that author last names should be added for disambiguation.

Oops, sorry. I missed that example.

as a short-term workaround, use this style

Isn't that (removing disambiguate-add-givenname) correct for the style generally though?

In either case, we do have a bug in by-cite disambiguation. It turns out that the initials crop up when a bibliography is added to the document, which is very wrong. I'll look into this soon.

(note that the plugin will only work on Zotero for Firefox)

I dont understand what "processor patch plugin" should do.

but the workaround seems to work fine. except it put abbreviations into accolades.
{MOMS-GA:} A Multi-Objective Multi-State Genetic Algorithm for System Reliability Optimization Design Problems”, {IEEE} Transactions on Reliability,

{ } are not needed. somehow when I delete them and add them again it will fix it tough. but not with refreshing references with new style.

Is the work-around going to be added to the emerald style?

This abbreviations in {} in bibliiography seems to be a new issue for me. But when I delete references in the text and add them again the problem goes away. It seems the Word keeps stuff or the link in a memory somewhere. What should i do to delete that Memory instead of fixing the problem one by one? I hope by deleting that and refreshing the bibliography stuff comes fresh from the zotero library without problem.

Thanks.