Silly APA style question...

[MCParent]

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You're writing a paper. A. B. Jones is the bigwig in the field. You're citing a few of Jones' papers. A B Jones here, A B Jones there.
You find one paper that was published that has their name as just A Jones. No B anywhere. It is definitely the same person. The paper has some unique findings and you need to cite it.
Cite it correctly to the person as Jones, A. B. (risking that indexing of your references is funky), or correctly to the published paper as Jones, A. (meaning that you'd have to have citations in text that are both A. B. Jones and A. Jones)?

 

[erg923]

Good God...are thes the anxieties of academic psychology/psychologists? Lol

 

[MCParent]

Good God...are thes the anxieties of academic psychology/psychologists? Lol

Goldernit Erg I SAID it was a silly question!

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Good God...are thes the anxieties of academic psychology/psychologists? Lol

Yes. The kind of nitpicking that goes on....

 

[MCParent]

Yes. The kind of nitpicking that goes on....

OMG. I said it was silly. Come on you guys. You guyyyys come on.

 

[Doctor-S]

Your question is well-taken and you are to be commended for being *oriented to detail* when preparing a manuscript for publication.

If you have two references in which the first author is the same person and has the same surname but different initials (e.g., “Jones, A.B.” and “Jones, A.”), you should not include the lead author’s initials in the text citations (since the use of initials should only be used in the text citations when referring to different primary authors).

Then, in the reference list, alphabetize as though the initials were identical.

Here is an example of the correct order when listing your citations in your reference list; and when authors match (APA sorts by the date of the article):

Jones, A. B. (2010). I like to eat apple pie and caviar after I complete an appendectomy. Journal of Surgery and Dining, 14, 26–52.

Jones, A. (2014). All medical students want to graduate from medical school and find great jobs. San Diego, CA: Double Duty Time Press.

Thank you.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

OMG. I said it was silly. Come on you guys. You guyyyys come on.

I'm being supportive! I know it feels weird to have support in academia, but I got you bro!

 

[MCParent]

Your question is well-taken and you are to be commended for being *oriented to detail* when preparing a manuscript for publication.

If you have two references in which the first author is the same person and has the same surname but different initials (e.g., “Jones, A.B.” and “Jones, A.”), you should not include the lead author’s initials in the text citations (since the use of initials should only be used in the text citations when referring to different primary authors).

Then, in the reference list, alphabetize as though the initials were identical.

Here is an example of the correct order when listing your citations in your reference list; and when authors match (APA sorts by the date of the article):

Jones, A. B. (2010). I like to eat apple pie and caviar after I complete an appendectomy. Journal of Surgery and Dining, 14, 26–52.

Jones, A. (2014). All medical students want to graduate from medical school and find great jobs. San Diego, CA: Double Duty Time Press.

Thank you.

Do you have a reference to the APA style guide on that, or is that your take on it? That seems like a fine solution though it requires fiddling with endnote in weird ways.

 

[PsychPhDone]

Do you have a reference to the APA style guide on that, or is that your take on it? That seems like a fine solution though it requires fiddling with endnote in weird ways.

I think this is a great question overall and would also appreciate a citation for it. Thanks!

 

[Doctor-S]

Your Question:

Do you have a reference to the APA style guide on that, or is that your take on it? That seems like a fine solution though it requires fiddling with endnote in weird ways.

My Answer:

EndNote is merely doing its own "software thing" with the same author. In this case, the EndNote software is perplexed and does not know how to provide a proper citation for the same author [who is using (or not using) initials for different articles, published in different years.]

For this reason, among others, I prefer to review all citations with my own eyes (and not with software). Of course, this is simply my own personal policy, and others may choose different methods ... no worries.

My response to your initial question is based on the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (see "In-Text Citations:Author/Authors" and "Reference List: Author/Authors").

Thank you.

 

[Ollie123]

I'd always go with what the actual published article entails. I might manually delete the initials from in-text if I was REALLY desperate for an extra couple spaces to shorten things up, but that is more likely in a grant when I'm always using numbered citations anyways.

 

[calimich]

Your question is well-taken and you are to be commended for being *oriented to detail* when preparing a manuscript for publication.

If you have two references in which the first author is the same person and has the same surname but different initials (e.g., “Jones, A.B.” and “Jones, A.”), you should not include the lead author’s initials in the text citations (since the use of initials should only be used in the text citations when referring to different primary authors).

Then, in the reference list, alphabetize as though the initials were identical.

Here is an example of the correct order when listing your citations in your reference list; and when authors match (APA sorts by the date of the article):

Jones, A. B. (2010). I like to eat apple pie and caviar after I complete an appendectomy. Journal of Surgery and Dining, 14, 26–52.

Jones, A. (2014). All medical students want to graduate from medical school and find great jobs. San Diego, CA: Double Duty Time Press.

Thank you.

Agree with this. Check APA pub manual section 6.14. I've run into this citing the McWhirter family and the Smedley duo. Your case is slightly different because it seems to be the same person published under two slightly different names, but I think the rule still applies.