Citation Initials

test049
Hello everybody!

I'm going to write a paper and trying out Zotero styling. One of my requirements is to generate citations in form [ABC99a] where ABC are the first characters in the Surnames of the authors (e.g. there are 3 authors called John Adamson, Lee Bingo and Richard Cliff), 99 is the publication year and a is a disambiguation suffix added if there are some ABC99 combinations already in the text.

As far as I tried, i can only abbreviate the full names to surnames. Does anybody knows how I can only take the first Letter of the Surnames?

Many thanks!
  • bdarcus
    edited November 18, 2010
    Not possible now, and not the most straight-forward thing in the world to implement.
  • adamsmith
    there's a thread somewhere here with a somewhat viable work-around using the extra field - maybe you can find it or someone else remembers where it is.
  • test049
    many thanks for quick answers, guys!
    @adamsmith
    do you mean using a "tag" field where I have to insert the abbreviation manually? Or was it an automatic way?
  • fbennett
    edited November 18, 2010
    You'd have to prepare the tag manually. There's no mechanism for abbreviating or truncating individual surnames in CSL.

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