Upgrade StorageIn-text citation includes "et al." for a single author source (MLA 8)
I searched through the discussions, but couldn't find out if anybody has clarified this already.I have an entry of a chapter/book section by a single author, but the book's editors are listed in the entry to give me a bibliography output like this:
Churchland, Patricia S."Toward a Natural Science of the Mind." Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brainscience and Buddhism, edited by Zara Houshmand et al., Snow Lion Publications, 1999, pp.18–31.
When I add an in-text citation, however, I do not have just the single author's name as (Churchland 24) but as (Churchland et al., 24).Is there something I should change in the metadata entry?
Churchland, Patricia S."Toward a Natural Science of the Mind." Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brainscience and Buddhism, edited by Zara Houshmand et al., Snow Lion Publications, 1999, pp.18–31.
When I add an in-text citation, however, I do not have just the single author's name as (Churchland 24) but as (Churchland et al., 24).Is there something I should change in the metadata entry?
Anyway, a different problem cropped up since I am citing both Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland in my work (not sure if I should create a new thread for this).So the MLA says that if the first initial is the name for two authors with the same last name, then the in-text citation needs to give the first name in full.The source of this instruction is here: https://style.mla.org/authors-with-same-last-name/
But my in-text citations identify Paul M.Churchland and Patricia S.Churchland as (P.M.Churchland) and (P.S.Churchland) respectively.Is this a known issue?Is there any workaround for this?
The page you link to says that just initials, unless the initials are the same:
"Your in-text citations should always include the first initial along with the last name, or, if the first initials of two authors are the same, the full first name along with the last name…"
Anyway, an added edit to the problem I raised about the disambiguation.
The "first initial" mentioned in this post for "C.Johnson" ignores the middle initial "S.": https://style.mla.org/two-people-same-last-name/
So I think MLA doesn't seem to take the second initial into consideration, though I am not sure how this would work out in the case of the Churchlands.Unlike APA, I feel full first names are given prominence in MLA and so "P.M." and "P.S." are not intuitively the best way to disambiguate the names.
188BET靠谱吗Zotero will treat these two items as different people:
Churchland || Paul S.
Churchland || P.S.
So, if you want them to be recognized as the same person, make them all Churchland || Paul S.
Don't store just the initials.
188BET靠谱吗Zotero will _never_ turn Churchland || Paul S.into "P.Churchland".There is no code in the citation processor to eliminate one of the initials.If you have a citation coming out as "P.Churchland" then the initial isn't in your item data.
188BET靠谱吗I ended up with Zotero not differentiating them at all on account of same last name and same first letter.Both were rendered as (P.Churchland).For these cases, MLA requires full first name in the in-text citation.I was seeking help on how this can be achieved.