Upgrade StorageAPA author disambiguation: two authors, three in-text styles?!?
I have to use APA for an article I am writing, and it's the first time I use APA.
I have two authors with identical last names appearing in the references: McNeil, Paul K. and McNeil, Anne K. . Sometimes they are authors on the same paper.
Both authors are named consistently throughout my database.
Zotero does this:
In-text references
(P. L. McNeil, 2002)
(A. K. McNeil, Rescher, Gerke, & McNeil, 2006)
List of References:
McNeil, A. K., Rescher, U., Gerke, V., & McNeil, P. L. (2006). Requirement for annexin A1 in plasma membrane repair. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(46), 35202–35207. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M606406200
McNeil, P. L. (2002). Repairing a torn cell surface: make way, lysosomes to the rescue. Journal of Cell Science, 115(Pt 5), 873–879.
In the second in-text citation case, is the second McNeil name appearing "McNeil" and not "P. L. McNeil" somehow correct APA, which would seem ludicrous to me, is this a Zotero bug, or is something cryptic going wrong in my database? After all, the right initials appear with each author in the list of references!
Thanks for any help or ideas what might be going on!
I have two authors with identical last names appearing in the references: McNeil, Paul K. and McNeil, Anne K. . Sometimes they are authors on the same paper.
Both authors are named consistently throughout my database.
Zotero does this:
In-text references
(P. L. McNeil, 2002)
(A. K. McNeil, Rescher, Gerke, & McNeil, 2006)
List of References:
McNeil, A. K., Rescher, U., Gerke, V., & McNeil, P. L. (2006). Requirement for annexin A1 in plasma membrane repair. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(46), 35202–35207. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M606406200
McNeil, P. L. (2002). Repairing a torn cell surface: make way, lysosomes to the rescue. Journal of Cell Science, 115(Pt 5), 873–879.
In the second in-text citation case, is the second McNeil name appearing "McNeil" and not "P. L. McNeil" somehow correct APA, which would seem ludicrous to me, is this a Zotero bug, or is something cryptic going wrong in my database? After all, the right initials appear with each author in the list of references!
Thanks for any help or ideas what might be going on!
I would personally find disambiguating authors throughout the in-text references, and not only the first author, less confusing from a reader's perspective - in my particular example, it is not clear whether there are three or two persons named McNeil from the in-text citations, after all, and would be otherwise.
But hey, if that's the convention:-)