First names and initials are appearing in my citations? What should I do?
This is a common issue due to inconsistencies in the first names in your database.
Zotero doesn't know that
- Jeff Smith
- J. Smith
- J. R. Smith
are all the same person, and is trying to follow the official style guides by 'disambiguating' them as if they are different people.
Either
Go through your database and change all the names that refer to the same person to the exact same form.
Or
Use a style without “given-name-disambiguation”.
A step by step guide to completely removing given-name-disambiguation from a CSL style is here.