Journal articles with co-first authors

cooperl09
Is there a way to indicate that a Journal articles has co-first authors?
For example:
Walls RL, Cooper L, Elser J, Gandolfo MA, Mungall CJ, Smith B, Stevenson DW, Jaiswal P (2019) The Plant Ontology Facilitates Comparisons of Plant Development Stages Across Species. Front Plant Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00631
First two are co-first authors as shown in the HTML version, but this is not shown in the bibliography or the citation: (Walls et al., 2019)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.00631/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Plant_Science&id=444267

Citation should be: (Walls and Cooper et al., 2019)
  • adamsmith
    No, sorry. Neither Zotero nor the citation styles it uses can do this.
    I'll note that this also isn't available as information anywhere in the metadata nor widely used as a norm for handling papers with multiple 'first' authors in citations, including by the journal itself: you'll see Walls et al. in the header of the PDF version of the paper.
  • cooperl09
    Thanks for the reply. This would be a useful feature
  • bwiernik
    The way I have indicated (or seen others indicate) this for a CV is one of the following:

    1. Add a * after the co-first names and add a note after the reference (I modified the CSL style to use the “references” variable and entered the note in Extra like `References: Co-first authors`

    2. Put the co-first author names in bold by puttting <b> </b> tags around the last names.

    3. Each co-first author putting their name first on their CV so that their first status is recognized as such.
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