Authors with multi-text names
If you are citing with an author who’s first or surname is multi-text such as John David or De Santos using SmartCite the add-in will only recognize the first text of the author’s name as the first name and the last text as the last name.
Our team is aware of this and our team is working on having the application recognize these names in a future update of the application.
A workaround for this is to enter a “no backspace” (nbsp) character that will insert a space between the multi-part surnames. To enter this character, put your cursor where you want to insert the no-backspace and use one of the following commands:
| Apple keyboard | option + space bar |
| Windows keyboard | alt, type A0 |
| Linux keyboard | ctrl+shift, type UA0 |
Alternatively, you can also copy the nbsp character using this website to be place in-between the text for the first or surname when editing the metadata of the desired article.
After saving the metadata associated with the entry will then recognize it as ‘one’ text and show it correctly when citing.
