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• Ok, we've played around with this a little more. What seems to do the trick is to switch to another style (we used the Chicago Author-Date) and then back to APA. Once I did this, the above example was then just correctly cited as (Provine, 1996). …

  in Author initials are shown in in-text citations, although they shouldn't [APA 7th] Comment by andre_xs January 7, 2021
• Thanks for the clarifications. I can check again, but I'm pretty sure that's what I observed. We use two fields (first and last name in separate fields) in the main Zotero program. When I changed "R.R." to "R. R." in Zotero, it changed in the same w…

  in Author initials are shown in in-text citations, although they shouldn't [APA 7th] Comment by andre_xs January 6, 2021
• Thanks for this, I'll try out the Chicago style to find a potential 'rogue' reference :-) BTW, how 'picky' is Zotero in determining whether two first names are the same? For example: 1. R. R. (with space, with periods) 2. R.R. (without space, with …

  in Author initials are shown in in-text citations, although they shouldn't [APA 7th] Comment by andre_xs January 6, 2021
• I used the way recommended by the Zotero homepage, i.e. exported as XML file. I've only now noticed that a style (like APA 6th Ed) can be used during saving/output. May it be worthwile to change that to something other? Data were entered in Endnote…

  in Author import problem: "J. Smith" and "Smith, J." in one database Comment by andre_xs June 27, 2018
• Thanks a lot, that's already much quicker than manually changing the fields. Any chance there is some kind of automatic / batch / script way to do this? Endnote didn't have a problem with that, could I possibly get that right during Endnote import?

  in Author import problem: "J. Smith" and "Smith, J." in one database Comment by andre_xs June 26, 2018