How to cite in prose using only author's last name?

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Hi,

I’m writing my thesis, using the CSL file to get the correct citation style (IEEE with URLs). When citing with the “prose” option, I get the author’s initial and last name - e.g. “J. Smith [1]”.

Is there a straigthforward way to output only the last name, without the initial?

Thanks!

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Hi there!
It should be possible to create a custom citation style or maybe there is one already, but I’m not aware of it. Creating a custom citation style is pretty complicated and might be overkill for your purpose.
Something that seems to work though is the following:

#let my-cite(label) = {
  show regex("[A-Z]. "): none
  cite(label, form: "prose")
}
A citation in the style you asked for: #my-cite(<some-citation>)
#bibliography("bibliography.bib")

My answer is inspired by this post about getting rid of other parts of the citation (in another citation style)

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This is not how regex works. Here is an explanation. For any language to work, "\p{Lu}\. " should be used, for only Latin letters: "[A-Z]\. ".

Indeed, the correct way would be to use a different CSL style, or copy the used one and patch it.

Since the text is supposed to be very short, I think this is a pretty good solution, though I think it will also remove the middle name, if it does exist and shows. If it was a longer text, then it can easily remove some other parts of the citation, since the regex is very generic.

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Thank you for correcting me :blush: . I tend to forget the backslash…
And yes, you are correct, my expression is a little bit too specific.
I looked up the expression at regex - Rust, but the website you referenced looks better , so thank you very much for the advice :+1:.
Regarding editing the CSL style, I couldn’t find it in the github repo (I searched the website for “ieee”) and to be honest it might be a little too complex for me anyways.

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Thank you for the responses, I’ll try editing the CSL file!

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I think it’s hayagriva/archive/styles/ieee.cbor at main · typst/hayagriva · GitHub, but the up-to-date one is styles/ieee.csl at master · citation-style-language/styles · GitHub.

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The spec is here: CSL 1.0.2 Specification — Citation Style Language 1.0.1-dev documentation.