Non-western names in in-text citations
I am dealing with an issue with non-Western naming convention and in-text citations, using the MLA citation style. I cite a lot of Korean authors, and if I use the single name field, it works fine for the Works Cited section, but the in-text citations use the full name, rather than just the family name as would be correct. If I use the two fields for the name, then the in-text citations are fine, but the Works Cited page is not. Reading through a very old thread on this same issue makes it seem like this situation was solved, but I can't figure out how. Is there a work-around that everyone already knows? If not, is there any way to add a name field for in-text citations?
As you will see, the in-text citations are showing the full name for any name put in the single field, which is incorrect. Any ideas on how to solve?
(Or am I wrong and the ability of styles to parse the single-name field is far more sophisticated that I believed?)
Kim, So-Young, and Chris Berry. “‘Suri Suri Masuri’: The Magic of the Korean Horror Film: A Conversation.” Postcolonial Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2000, pp. 53–60.
The comma between "Kim" and "So-Young" is incorrect. Unless there is another work around that I can't find, the easiest way to correct this seems to be adding an optional in-text field, so the author's name can be stored in the single field, with the family name additionally in an in-text citation field.
I suppose it is possible to manually delete the comma in the bibliography, but that requires some additional way of remembering which authors have changed their names to a Western order versus those who have not.
Changed their names? I don't think that the author's consider that their names have been changed when transliteated for an English language publication.
edit: strikethrough to indicate that I was wrong in this situation of MLA style. See the next two items in this thread.
I guess that the question for Zotero and CSL concerns the possibility of adding a language attribute to individual author names. Does Juris-M have this capability?
As an explanation of my pig-headedness, I'm comming from the perspective of a database curator instead of an author. My instincts are based on findability in an author name search. Thus, I'm more interested in having an author name query identify all works by the author -- that means assigning name synonyms so that an author may be found using a Korean alphabet or an English alphabet search.
Again, I apologize for thinking I was being authorative when in reality I was uninformed about MLA style.