Style supports given name disambiguation but sometimes it looks unnecessary

geo05
Hi

Suppose that we have three different authors share the same family name, White.

If they published in the same year, then it is acceptable to do disambiguation. For example:

W.L. White, 2010
D.-P. White, 2010
H. White, 2010

But if they published in three different years (ex: White, 2007; White, 2010; White, 2020), I would not like that Zotero does disambiguation (I see it is unnecessary). How to stop disambiguation in that case automatically?

Let me know your opinion.
  • adamsmith
    That's a style setting, not a Zotero setting. APA style, e.g. explicitly says to disambiguate all first authors, not citations. Same for Chicago Manual. A lot of other styles do exactly what you prefer, i.e. only add initials when the citation is otherwise ambiguous.
    If you're interested in playing with the CSL style code, the attribute's name is
    givenname-disambiguation-rule
    and APA has it set to "primary-name" and what you want is "by-cite"
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