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I'm quite new to LaTeX and I'm really sorry if this is a super easy question, but I didn't find a solution to this specific problem.

I have a book with two authors that I'd like to cite in my text. And I would like to see something like:

Following Smith and Smith (2006, p. 2),

but instead what I'm seeing is:

A. Smith and P. Smith (2006, p.2)

I'm using \citet{key} and

\usepackage[backend=biber,natbib,style=apa,citestyle=authoryear]{biblatex}

Is there any way to omit the initial character of the first name?

moewe
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Robin Kohrs
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    You have tagged your question with both biblatex and natbib. biblatex and natbib are two (fundamentally incompatible) bibliography/citation packages. Which one do you use? The solution crucially depends on the approach you use. It would be ideal if you could show us a short example document that reproduces what you are seeing with as little code as possible (a so-called MWE: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864). Then we would know immediately what packages you use and can test our solutions. – moewe Mar 07 '20 at 09:56
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    If you are using biblatex it might be https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134535/35864 – moewe Mar 07 '20 at 09:57
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    Do you load the biblatex package with the option natbib? – Mico Mar 07 '20 at 09:58
  • Sorry I know my question wasn't too good...I'll try my best to give a MWE as fast as possible. In my head I'm using \usepackage[backend=biber,natbib,style=apa,citestyle=authoryear]{biblatex}. Maybe this already helps a little – Robin Kohrs Mar 07 '20 at 10:03
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    style=apa,citestyle=authoryear is a bit of an unusual combination. Either you want APA style, in which case you need only style=apa,or you don't want APA style, in which case style=authoryear, might be more appropriate than a mixed form like style=apa,citestyle=authoryear. biblatex-apa implements APA style as closely as possible and can therefore be hard to customise if you don't want real APA style. Since you are using biblatex https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134535/35864 should help. – moewe Mar 07 '20 at 10:06
  • thank you very much!! Already helped a lot!! – Robin Kohrs Mar 07 '20 at 10:12
  • Does that mean https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134535/35864 answered your question? – moewe Mar 07 '20 at 10:13
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    I'm voting to close this query as a duplicate of biblatex, authoryear style: In-text citations display first name initials for certain bibliography entries – Mico Mar 07 '20 at 10:15

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