General ⇒ Citation issue

[John_Nada]

Hi everyone,

This might be a stupid question but it's my first time using avoiding a WYSIWYG thing for a project. It's not a big problem actually but it is destroying my will to live.

I write this:

@article{hirsch_determinacion_2020,
title = {Determinación y tendencia del valor de la fuerza de trabajo en la crítica de la economía política},
volume = {07},
number = {6},
journal = {Red Sociales, Revista del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales},
author = {Hirsch, Mariana},
year = {2020},
pages = {32--49},
}

When I cite it in the body of the text it appears like "(M. Hirsch, 2020)". Why? It should be "(Hirsch, 2020)" right?

I'm loosing my faith with these kind of tools, should be hand writing jajaja jk (pls help)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi John,

welcome to the forum!

The appearance of the citations depends on your configuration, including packages and styles. Perhaps show a minimal document (minimal working example) that produces this output, and we can help to change it.

Stefan

[John_Nada]

But it's the only citation that makes me suffer like this, the rest of them are like "(Lastname, YEAR)". Does it make any
sense?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Sure, you just don't tell us what you are writing. So we cannot tell you the reason.

I took the time to write this. See, it's what you required:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{round}
\begin{filecontents}[force]{example.bib}
@article{hirsch_determinacion_2020,
title = {Determinación y tendencia del valor de la fuerza de trabajo en la crítica de la economía política},
volume = {07},
number = {6},
journal = {Red Sociales, Revista del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales},
author = {Hirsch, Mariana},
year = {2020},
pages = {32--49},
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
\section*{Recommended texts}
See \citep{hirsch_determinacion_2020}.
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{example}
\end{document}

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Stefan

[John_Nada]

I'm sorry, I'm pretty green with this. My problem is that when I write you the minimal document it gives me a perfect citation.

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\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{article}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel} % Idioma para silabación, texto automático
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry} % Márgenes
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx} % Fuente rollito Times New Roman
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  linkcolor=black,
  citecolor=black,
  urlcolor=black,
  pdfborder={0 0 0},
  breaklinks=true,
} % Elimina los cuadrados rojos que señalan hipervínculos en el índice

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{apacite} % citar en APA (siempre después de hyperref)


\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{1cm}{0.1cm} % Ajusta el espacio para las secciones
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{0.5cm}{0cm} % Ajusta el espacio para las subsecciones

\setlength{\skip\footins}{1cm} % Distancia pie de página
\setlength{\parskip}{1.5em} % Espacio entre párrafos
\setlength{\parindent}{3em} % Márgenes de párrafos
\setlength{\headheight}{14.5pt} % Altura del encabezado
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5} % Interlineado general


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}

Blabla \cite{hirsch_determinacion_2020}


\renewcommand{\refname}{Bibliografía}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{name.bib}

\end{document}

I literally copied and pasted from the original project, so... Anyway, I really appreciate your time trying this

[John_Nada]

I saw something that could be relevant, it also happens when I cite Dana Hirsch, another author with the same last name

[John_Nada]

Okay... I resolved this, when you have two authors with the same last name you get the first letter of the first name to distinguish one from the other... It's solved, I don't know if I should delete this...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Great that it's resolved!

Stefan