Author initials not separated in bibliography

wanderingelf
Hi,

I have modified a chicago citation style so that first names are printed as initials only (by adding 'initialize-with=". "' to tags). The csl file works properly when tested at chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul. For example:

"Young, A. T. 1994. “Air Mass and Refraction.” Applied Optics 33 (6): 1108–10. doi:10.1364/AO.33.001108."

but when I generate a bibliography in a libreoffice document, the references don't
have a space between the initials. For example:

"Young, A.T. 1994. “Air Mass and Refraction.” Applied Optics 33 (6): 1108–10. doi:10.1364/AO.33.001108."

Also does not work if I use 'initialize-with="."' or 'initialize-with=". "'

Any help to make it work in the bibliography welcome. I'm using windows 7 (64 bit), Zotero for firefox 4.0.29.11, firefox 48.0.2.

cheers,
Dean
  • bwiernik
    edited September 9, 2016
    initialize-with=". " is how you would do this.

    Make sure that you actually install the fixed version of your citation in Zotero. I recommend deleting the style from Zotero and then re-installing your edited version, just to be sure that the correct version is installed. Then, in your word processor, be sure to re-set the "Document Preferences" to choose the style.

    Otherwise, please enter your code at http://gist.github.com/ and share a secret gist link here so that we can look at your complete style.
  • wanderingelf
    Thanks @bwiernik,

    I followed you advice, and deleted the style from Zotero in firefox completely, then reinstalled.

    I also had to do a similar thing in LibreOffice: change the document citation style to another one, and close the document (and LibreOffice) completely. Then reopen the document, change the citation style back to my preferred one, delete the existing bibliography, and insert a new one. The new bibliography had the space between initials. This seemed the crucial step as just deleting/reinstalling in Zotero was not successful.

    I guess that libreoffice was not refreshing the modifications to the style from Zotero in firefox unless forced to by actually changing styles

    cheers,
    Dean
  • bwiernik
    The key step there is changing the style in LibreOffice and changing it back again. You shouldn't need to close the program, delete the bibliography, etc.

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