Sorry for digging up an old post. I have a problem in that in some in-text citations the author’s first name appears. At first I thought it is because I import citations and some records spell out the full first name and some only have initials.
So I changed everything to initials. Then the intext citations still have the initial for the first name (e.g. P. Corrigan).
Leanne, I tried what you suggested - by unticking “include author full name or initials in citations” under ambiguous citations. That didn’t fix the problem. Then, I unticked “use initials only for primary authors with the same name” under Author name. Then it seems to work.
Did I do the right thing? Would this fix the problem?
I discovered last week during a user support that the reason why EndNote considered the same author ambiguous was that in one of the refeerences a space was included after the author intitial’s period in one of them and not in the other. This was enought to fool EndNote. Removing the space solved the probolem.
Rein, J.
Rein, J.Space
Will cause intitials in citations in APA and similar for the latter.
This is impossible to see unless you check properly by clicking after the initials.
Leanne’s suggestion of copying author names will prevent this kind of error.
I’m sorry for digging in an old post. But I’m not quite clear on what do you mean by copying the name from one record into each of the others. I’m currently using EndNote online (web) so whatever provided in the previous discussions seems not applicable. I have tried to put first name as initials and remove the space (e.g. Campbell, J.L. and Campbell, J.T.) but the in-text citation keeps on appearing as J. L. Campbell, 2007; J. T. Campbell et al., 2012.