use only initials for author name in bibliography

Question

\usepackage[style=numeric,language=english, maxbibnames=99]{biblatex}

@article{first,
  author =       "Michelle Carney and   Barron Webster and Irene Alvarado and Kyle Phillips and Noura Howell and Jordan Griffith and Jonas Jongejan and Amit Pitaru",
  title =        "{Article Name}",
  journal =      "CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
  year =         "2020",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/"
}

Currently, my output is something like this:

 Michelle Carney, Barron Webster, Irene Alvarado, Kyle Phillips, Noura Howell, Jor-dan Griffith

but I want to shorten it such that names are like Michelle C., Barron W, Irene A, etc.

As mentioned here, Bibliography with only initials of names I tried this, giveninits=truebut it just reduces my reference to

 Michelle Carney et al.

Welcome to TeX.SE. Let me make sure I understand your formatting requirements: You want to show the full given names and truncate the surnames. Is this right? — Mico, Nov 15 '20 at 00:03
From the answer below, I realize that it's more common to abbreviate the first names instead of the surnames. So I should stick to that. @Mico — x89, Nov 15 '20 at 11:50

moewe · Answer 1 · 2020-11-15T11:56:02.700

Update

If you want to abbreviate given names, use the giveninits option (which in older versions of biblatex was called firstinits). That option does not influence maxnames and friends, so has no influence on whether or not a list of names is shortened with "et al.".

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=numeric, maxbibnames=99, giveninits]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson,worman,geer,nussbaum,aksin}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

It is quite unusual to abbreviate the family/last names of people in the bibliography, but Biber already provides abbreviated family names, we just have to use them.

For initials of given names there is a simple option called giveninits and while a similar option exists for the family name it doesn't do anything with the standard styles. So here we just define a new name format and use that.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=numeric, maxbibnames=99]{biblatex}
\DeclareNameFormat{given-f}{%
  \usebibmacro{name:given-family}
    {\namepartfamilyi}
    {\namepartgiven}
    {\namepartprefixi}
    {\namepartsuffix}%
  \usebibmacro{name:andothers}}
\DeclareNameAlias{default}{given-f}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson,worman,geer,nussbaum,aksin}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

If abbreviating first names is more common then I should also stick to that. However, I already tried giveninits=true with the usepackage option but it does not work as expected. Instead, it changes the remaining names to 'et all' — x89, Nov 15 '20 at 11:52
@x89 The option giveninits has no effect on list truncation with 'et al.'. Have a look at the updated answer to see an example with many names that is not truncated. If you get truncation even though you set maxnames to a high value, please provide a complete example document that reproduces the unexpected behaviour. — moewe, Nov 15 '20 at 11:57

use only initials for author name in bibliography

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