When citing Jakob Nielsen's works with apacite
package and bibliography style (with the option natbibapa
), the citation call-out is generated like this:
(J. Nielsen, 1993; J. Nielsen & Molich, 1990)
This is not what I intend, as APA should not include the author's first name as an initial. It should be like this:
(Nielsen, 1993; Nielsen & Molich, 1990)
This is how I've done it in LaTeX:
\citep{Nielsen1990, Nielsen1993}
I am also curious about why the sequence is inverted to how I wrote in LaTeX.
BibTeX entries, generated by Mendeley:
@inproceedings{Nielsen1990,
address = {New York, New York, USA},
author = {Nielsen, Jakob and Molich, Rolf},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems Empowering people - CHI '90},
doi = {10.1145/97243.97281},
isbn = {0201509326},
pages = {249--256},
publisher = {ACM Press},
title = {{Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces}},
url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=97243.97281},
year = {1990}
}
@book{Nielsen1993,
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
arxivId = {arXiv:1011.1669v3},
author = {Nielsen, Jakob},
booktitle = {Usability Engineering},
doi = {10.1145/1508044.1508050},
eprint = {arXiv:1011.1669v3},
isbn = {0125184069},
issn = {10772626},
number = {3},
pages = {362},
pmid = {18369261},
title = {{Usability Engineering}},
url = {http://www.useit.com/jakob/useengbook.html},
volume = {44},
year = {1993}
}
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt, twoside]{book}
\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\begin{document}
\citep{Nielsen1990, Nielsen1993}
\bibliography{Bibliography/bibliografi,Bibliography/library}
\end{document}
(Nielsen, 1993; Nielsen & Molich, 1990)
. What I suspect is that you have another Nielsen with another first name somewhere in your bibliography (either in the filebibliografi
orlibrary
). Also check if there is a mis-spelled Jakob Nielsen, a J. Nielsen or a Jakob Middlename Nielsen. Then bibtex might abbreviate the first name of the author to make sure the references are unique.authoryear
style and usingbiblatex
to create the bibliography. I would say it's expected (and sensible) behaviour, since you want to be able to distinguish the two authors easily also in the main text. I thinkbiblatex
has some options to control this behaviour (uniquename
and such), but I'm not sure aboutapacite
. You might have to check the documentation if you really want to change that ...