Upgrade Storagecitations with different first names
Hi everyone,
There is a citation (Jones 2000). Then I tend to cite another (Jones 2001) but Zotero automatically changes both citations to (C. Jones 2000) and (B. Jones 2001). I understand why Zotero does that because Jones have different first names, or they are different persons.
In fact, I don't want to add the first names in front of the two Jones because the different years is enough to make them distinguishable. In other words, I only want (Jones 2000) and (Jones 2001). I can manually edit the two citations to my liking but they will go back to (C. Jones 2000) and (B. Jones 2001) once I switch to another citation style.
Is there any way to get around this problem?
Thank you very much.
There is a citation (Jones 2000). Then I tend to cite another (Jones 2001) but Zotero automatically changes both citations to (C. Jones 2000) and (B. Jones 2001). I understand why Zotero does that because Jones have different first names, or they are different persons.
In fact, I don't want to add the first names in front of the two Jones because the different years is enough to make them distinguishable. In other words, I only want (Jones 2000) and (Jones 2001). I can manually edit the two citations to my liking but they will go back to (C. Jones 2000) and (B. Jones 2001) once I switch to another citation style.
Is there any way to get around this problem?
Thank you very much.
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(The info will help me to reproduce the behaviour, and check the CSL formatting options that cause it.)
I look forward to your help.
Thanks.
I've confirmed that with the APA style, in Zotero 1.5b2, the behaviour is exactly as you describe. I agree that it's not correct; if the year differs, there is no need for disambiguation, so the base form of the name should be used, and in APA that should be Jones' last name with no initials.
Can't offer any immediate solution, but a new CSL processor is under development, which will handle this case in the way that you (that we all) prefer. It will take some time to arrive, but it's in the works, and will become available in due course.
Sorry I can't be more help.