wrong APA style

[Hongxingdu]

for a citation it looks like we are the subjects—not the objects—of our own experience (R. L. Hall, 1979).

Notice! The initials are not needed for APA. Can anyone update this?

[faph]

You can edit the styles yourself, they're saved in c:\ProgramData\Docear4Word\Styles\.

But I do think that the APA style is in fact correct. Are you sure the author has been entered correctly in the bibtex file? Could you post the bibtex entry?

[GeorgLink]

Another issue could be how the author is recorded in the Bib file.

• Writing {Hall, R.L.} works for me.
• {R. L. Hall} should also work
• {R. L. Hall,} (comma at the end, not between last and first name, produces the outcome given above.

[wjschne]

Most likely you have cited another 1979 paper by someone named Hall and the initials are needed to resolve the ambiguity. Usually this happens to me when I cite two papers written in the same year by the same author, but the names are recorded slightly differently in the the .bib file. For example, Hall, R. L. and Hall, Richard might be assumed to be different people. Changing the names to be exactly the same in each .bib entry usually fixes the problem.