Author initials on in-text citations

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This is usually the result of disambiguation. When two or more cited authors have the same last name, they are disambiguated by adding initials and/or first/middle names.

If the initials are being added to entries by a same author, the solution is to edit the metadata from the library so that the names match exactly.

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