Here is an MWE:
\documentclass{article} %
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex} %
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{pollis-schwab79a,
editor = {Pollis, Adamantia and Peter Schwab},
title = {Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives},
publisher = {Praeger},
year = {1979}
}
@Article{schwab-meijaard13,
author = {Schwab, Arend L. and Jaap P. Meijaard},
title = {A Review on Bicycle Dynamics and Rider Control},
journal = {Vehicle System Dynamics},
year = {2013},
volume = {51},
pages = {1059--1090}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
% \textcite{pollis-schwab79a}
\textcite{schwab-meijaard13}
\end{document}
The citation appears as
Schwab and Meijaard (2013)
This is fine. But uncomment now the line with % \textcite{pollis-schwab79a}. This is what appears:
Pollis and P. Schwab (1979)
A. L. Schwab and Meijaard (2013)
Biblatex puts first name abbreviations into the citation for the duplicate name (Schwab). I do not want this for several reasons. How can I tell it not to do this?
uniquename=falseto yourbiblatexoptions. – David Purton May 24 '19 at 01:29