Any Harvard style without Author's First name ?

whitecloud1
I have tried various versions of Harvard style (author-Date). All of them insist on inputting the author's First name and Surname e.g. (Robert Smith 2013).
I only want Surname and date, e.g. (Smith 2013). This should be the norm as far as I know. Is there any ready-built Harvard or other Author-date Zotero style which already has this option? If not, I could edit an existing one but am not very clear about which field(s) to remove/change using a text editor.
I realise this may have been asked before but any help would be very welcome.
JB
  • adamsmith
    none of the Harvard style use the first name in the text. There are two reasons why you would get a first name:
    1. http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
    and
    2. Having the author entered incorrectly, i.e. "Robert Smith" in single field mode or all in the Last Name field.

    You can tell which of the two by looking at the bibiography. If you're seeing the correct
    Smith, Robert. 2013 or
    Smith, R. 2013
    in the bibliography you're likely looking at 1. If you get "Robert Smith" in the bibliography it's 2.
  • whitecloud1
    Thank you very much for your help. It was for reason number 2.

    I had manually entered the information fields of some books in order to test the Zotero program and had not noticed the single vs double field option for Author(s). This has solved my problem. Thanks again for your swift reply.
    JB

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