# Flexible author field on main window

**URL:** <https://community.endnote.com/t/flexible-author-field-on-main-window/349481>\
**Category:** EndNote Product Suggestions\
**Created:** [October 20, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/flexible-author-field-on-main-window/349481 "2017-10-20T21:54:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![philippebruno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@philippebruno](https://community.endnote.com/u/philippebruno)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/flexible-author-field-on-main-window/349481/1 "2017-10-20T21:54:22Z")

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I suggest that the author field in the reference list on the main window be more flexible. Currently, we have two options: (1) only the first author’s last name; (2) all the authors’ last name and initials. Whilst the former is not enough informative and makes it hard to distinguish multi-author references where the first author is the same, the latter is too crowded and makes it too hard to quickly find a reference because of all the initials between the last names. How about a third option displaying only the authors’ last name? Or better yet, why not making this a flexible field where we can arrange it the way we want using a configurtion dialogue where we could specify we want only the first three authors’ last name for example?