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When I cite a paper of an author with a short last name like \autocite{li2018}, biblatex/biber include initials when rendering it in author-year.

This is my setting in the preamble:

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-icomp,citestyle=authoryear-comp,doi=false,url=false,isbn=false,maxcitenames=2,uniquelist=false,date=year]{biblatex}

What would be the right setting to make sure, that only the last name and year are rendered and not the initials?

Sebastian Kraus
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    This is not standard behavior and it does not happen when I test it myself with your settings. Are you sure that you are not citing multiple people with the same last name and different first names? – cktai Jun 09 '20 at 13:35
  • Without a short yet fully compilable example document that reproduces the behaviour (a so-called MWE: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864) we can only guess. My guess would be that you want uniquename=false. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134535/35864 or the biblatex documentation for background. – moewe Jun 09 '20 at 14:23
  • Sorry for not providing a MWE. uniquename=false did the trick, but I'm still not sure why, since I don't have several entries with the same name "Li".

    \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-icomp,citestyle=authoryear-comp,doi=false,url=false,isbn=false,maxcitenames=2,uniquelist=false,date=year,uniquename=false]{biblatex}

     – Sebastian Kraus Jun 11 '20 at 12:42
  • Unfortunately, we can't explain why you need uniquename without an example document (with relevant .bib entries). Note that biblatex/Biber can't tell that "Donald Knuth" and "Donald E. Knuth" are the same person, so even if you only ever cite one "Knuth" you may get initials. – moewe Jun 11 '20 at 15:32
  • Anyway, I'm voting to close this as a duplicate of the uniquename question I linked above. If you want to know more details, you can ask a new question with MWE. – moewe Jun 11 '20 at 15:33

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