Display first name but only for Author (Year)

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For in text citations, is there away to display the author’s first name only when the style Author (Year) is used, but not for the default (Author, Year) style. So far I haven’t found a way to do this in EndNote X6. Thanks!

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That is what I understood too, but I was hopefull that maybe I was missing something :slight_smile:

I am working on a book and the editor just requested we added first names whenever we cite a reference using Author (Year). As there are ovver 1200 in-text citations, I was looking for some automatic way to do it. As in the example below: The theoretical framework proposed by John Hagan (1985) was that gender differences in delinquency stemmed from the fact that girls were controlled differently (…) With situational approaches, women and men are differently involved in crime because of their differing lifestyles (Cohen, 1979; Hindelang et al., 1978)."

Thanks for looking into this though!

L

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I know, right? Crazy.

Your solution is actually not bad. As you said, it is just a matter of how many in-text citations do you need to manually modify and what is quickest way to do this. I think I save some time going through the document manually (about 700 citations using the Author (Year) format) versus editing all the references used for this text (about 1200) as I cannot quickly identify which ones are formatted at least once using the Author (Year) format

Thanks for your help! I am pasting below what I did, in case this is ever useful to someone.

L

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This is what I did (based on the rules I have to follow re: the number of authors to cite.)

  1. unformat the in-text citations; 2. search for @author-year to identify every occurrences of the Author (Year) format; 3. add first names or edit names manually. See examples below

1 author = type first name in front of fieldcode:

Karlen {Faith, 1993 #19@@author-year} ===>  Karlen Faith (1993)

2 authors = type first name last name & first name last name fieldcode and use “Exclude author” format:

Jeffrey Ross & Stephen Richards {, 2002 #43} ===> Jeffrey Ross & Stephen Richards (2002)

3 or more authors: type first name of first author in front of fieldcode; author list rule is 3 or more use ‘et al.’

Reid {Toth, 2008 #4981@@author-year} ===> Reid Toth et al. (2008)