Be able to include only the first author in citations

[DukeGamma]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...] The citations currently include all authors. For papers with many authors this creates an incredibly long citation.

Describe the solution you'd like A clear and concise description of what you want to happen. I would like to be able to choose to include on the first author and year for citations

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[nabusch]

I have a similar request – it would be amazing if we could have a variable like {{firstAuthorLastName}} in addition to {{authorString}} to make note titles shorter, e.g. instead of:

{{authorString}} ({{year}}) {{title}} Felipe L. Gewers, Gustavo R. Ferreira, Henrique F. de Arruda, Filipi N. Silva, Cesar H. Comin, Diego R. Amancio, Luciano da F. Costa (2018) Principal Component Analysis_ A Natural Approach to Data Exploration.md

simply {{firstAuthorLastName}} ({{year}}) {{title}}: Gewers (2018) Principal Component Analysis_ A Natural Approach to Data Exploration.md

Thanks a lot for all the effort you put into this plugin!

[wjfeeney]

@hans I have a similar issue as @nabusch, above. I use Chicago 17th (full note, short title subsequent). It would be helpful to have a variable for author(s) last name(s) to use for short title subsequent.

[nabusch]

Ok, I seem to have figured out a way to get the last name of the first author. Not sure if this is a workaround or the intended way to do it.

In the plugin settings, I define "literature note title template" as: {{entry.data.creators.author.[0].lastName}} ({{year}}) {{title}}

For example, this article "Saxe, A., Nelli, S., & Summerfield, C. (2021). If deep learning is the answer, what is the question? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 22(1), Art. 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-020-00395-8", will get the note title "Saxe (2021) If deep learning is the answer, what is the question".

[blakeNaccarato]

Depending on the form of the JSON library you're pointing the plugin to, you may need to use e.g. {{entry.author.[0].family}} instead of {{entry.data.creators.author.[0].lastName}}. I know the former corresponds to CSL JSON libraries, while the latter may be the BiBLaTeX form? See the plugin documentation for detail on using the advanced {{entry... format. This link is also in the plugin settings. Perhaps this issue can be closed?

[nabusch]

Both expressions seem to work fine with the same effect for me (my library is in Bibtex format). AFAIAC feel free to close.

[DukeGamma]

Yeah that works for me @nabusch, thanks!