Bibliography with author initials - Chicago style

alycest
I'm only new to this, so please forgive me if the answer is obvious. I've been able to tweak a few things, but can't fix my references for Chicago citations.

What is want is :
Roeckner, E., Bengtsson, L., Feichter, J., Lelieveld, J., and H.H Rodhe (1999) Transient climate change simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM including the tropospheric sulfur cycle. Journal of Climate, 12(10) 3004-3032. Doi:6421.5321

What I keep getting is :
Roeckner, Earl., Larry Bengtsson, Joe Feichter, Jim Lelieveld, & Heidi Rodhe (1999). Transient climate change simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM including the tropospheric sulfur cycle. Journal of Climate, 12(10), 3004-3032. Doi: 145.421.4

How can I initialise the authors given name?

Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    the short version is to add initialize-with="." to the relevant <name .../> nodes.
    Does that work as instruction or do you need more details?
  • alycest
    Thank you so much for this, glad you have an answer!
    I've had a couple of fiddles, though I find the solution?
    Where should I add it in?
    <bibliography hanging-indent="true" et-al-min="11" et-al-use-first="7" subsequent-author-substitute="———" entry-spacing="0">
    <sort>
    <key macro="contributors-sort"/>
    <key variable="title"/>
    <key variable="genre"/>
    <key variable="issued"/>
    </sort>
    <layout suffix=".">
    <group delimiter=". ">
    <group delimiter=": ">
    <group delimiter=", ">
    <group delimiter=" ">
    <group delimiter=". ">
    <group delimiter=" ">
    <group delimiter=", ">
    <group delimiter=". ">
    <group delimiter=". ">
    <text macro="contributors"/>
    <text macro="title"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="description"/>
    <text macro="secondary-contributors"/>
    <group delimiter=", ">
    <text macro="container-title"/>
    <text macro="container-contributors"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="locators-join-with-period"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="locators-join-with-comma"/>
    <text macro="locators-chapter"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="locators-join-with-space"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="collection-title"/>
    <text macro="issue-join-with-period"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="issue-join-with-space"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="issue-join-with-comma"/>
    <text macro="locators-journal-join-with-comma"/>
    <text macro="locators-newspaper"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="locators-journal-join-with-colon"/>
    </group>
    <text macro="access"/>
    </group>
    </layout>
    </bibliography>
    </style>

    Thanks
    Alyce
  • adamsmith
    edited March 23, 2015
    no, you essentially want to find every line in the style that starts with <name... (not the ones that start with <names in the plural) and add intialize-with="." somewhere in that line.
    So e.g. change
    <name and="text" delimiter=", "/>
    to
    <name and="text" delimiter=", " initialize-with="."/>

    All of this is further up in the style, not in the sections you copied here.
  • alycest
    Perfect, thanks
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