APA Citation Format Errors

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Hello,

I’m having an issue with certain citations displaying incorrect APA formatting.  For instance, I would like a book by the author Kathleen Burke with a publishing year of 2016 to begin a sentence.  The correct APA format would be Burke (2016)… However, EndNote is consistently entering K. Burke (2016).  I’m also having the same issue with standard citations.  EndNote is consistently displaying the first initial of the author’s name.  I don’t believe this is a style issue as EndNote isn’t doing this for all entries.  I have 413 citations and approximately 30 are incorrect.

I’ve verified that the EndNote entry is correct and the Word fieldcode is also correct {burke, 2016@@author-year}.

Running EndNote 8.1 / macOS 10.13.1 / Word 2016 (15.4)

Any suggestions as to what is going on and more importantly, how to fix it.

Respectfully,

Shaun

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Leanne,

Thank you for the response.  I do have two authors with the name Burke however, they are different years.  One is Burke (2001) and the other is Burke (2016).  I believe the only time you should use the initial is when the authors have the same name and same year.

Bigger issue is that EndNote is not consistently doing this.  A majority of the citiations are correct where I have duplicates.  It is just a few authors where this is occurring.

Respectfully,

Shaun