Author, editor, translator names

The rules for entering names for authors, editors, and translators in Citation records are always the same. Names should always be entered in exactly the same manner, without print attributes, no matter what publishing style you will be selecting as the format for your citations:

Invert the given (first) and family (last) name:

Smith, Janis L.

Separate the names of individuals with a semi-colon:

Smith, Janis L.; Martins, Edward M.

Always enter all author names listed on the title page of the work cited, in the order in which they appear on the title page. Enter full names, if these are printed on the title page; Citation will truncate to initials if that is required for the citation style you select.

Examples

One author
Two authors with the same last name
Two or more (multiple) authors
Editors of a book
Editor of a book containing the short work cited
Editor(s) as primary contributors to the work
Translator, of a book
Translator, of an article in a journal
Organizational author
Anonymous medieval manuscript
Unsigned work (staff writer, anonymous, individual author not credited)

One author
book, first edition

Note that for the first edition of any published book, the edition description should not be included in the citation.

Two or more authors,
article in a journal that paginates consecutively throughout a volume

Always separate the names of individuals with a semi-colon.

Editors,
of an authored book (editors as secondary contributors), edition other than first

Editor,
of a book or anthology containing the short work cited

Editors,
as primary contributors to the work

When the primary contributors to a collection are the editors, and you are citing the collection in its entirety, enter the editor(s) names in the Author field, and include the "eds." tag in the Role field.

This also is the case when you are citing a single volume of a multivolume set for which the editors are the primary contributors:

Translator,
of a book

Translator,
article in a journal

Organizational author,
no subdivisions in organizational name

If the work has an organizational author that is a single division, use the Book, Journal article, or other regular form, and enter the name of the organization in the Author field.

Organizational author,
subdivisions in organizational name

If the work has an organizational author that is a division or subdivision of a larger institution, use the Institutional/Agency publications form, and separate the names of the subdivisions in the fields provided.

Note that organizations and subdivisions abbreviations may differ between publishing styles. Enter the organizational names using the abbreviations for the citation style you use most frequently. You will need to edit these abbreviations when citations are formatted in other styles.

Unsigned work,
symposium

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