EndNote X9 Ambiguous citations problem (APA 6th)

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Hello,

I have an issue with APA 6th output style. I edited the settings for ambiguous citations so that EndNote does not include the author initials of full name in citation, but rather adds more author until the citation is unique. I saved my edits but when I updated citations & bibliography in my document nothing changed: I still have initials for my ambiguous citation.

Anyone knows how to handle such a situation ? I don’t want to have to manually edit them out when I finish my document…

Thanks a lot!

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Have you tried to change the name of the style?
As Leanne (our “mentor” on the list :wink:) has reminded us for years: It is not always easy to control which of the styles Word uses if you do not change the style name.

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Please see the following Knowledge Base article that talks about this type of issue.

https://support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/article/EndNote-Removing-author-name-initials-from-APA-Style?language=en_US

In addition to the Ambiguous Citations setting you will want to look at the setting under Author Name under Citations.