[Tex/LaTex] Author’s full first name with citation-in-text (citet{} directives)

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Is there some variant or option for \citet{} directive that will give me the author's full first name? But only when I need it?

In similar questions people have suggested editing the author field in the .bib file, but that brings more problems than help. We want:

@book{smith13,
Author = {Waldo Smith},
Title = {Real Given Names},
Publisher = {Foobar Press},
Address = {Erewhon},
Year = {2013}
}

And in the \bibliography{} section:

Smith, W. 1993. \emph{Real Given Names}. Erewhon: Foobar Press.

But some variant of \citet{} (or something) that will generate in the body text:

Waldo Smith (1993) demonstrated conclusively that it is possible to generate full names using BibTex.

Currently I'm typing in Waldo \citet{smith13} but it would be nice to get BibTeX to do this.

Note that we only do this the first time we refer to Waldo Smith; later on (even with different references), "Smith (1999)" is just fine. And, when we have multiple authors, we always use surnames only ("Brown and Miller (2013) showed, on the other hand, that…"). So anything heavy-handed that modifies the .bib file is not going to be The Answer.

Best Answer

Bibtex in combination with natbib does the trick.

\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
% or you can also use
% \usepackage{natbib}   

\citet*{smith13} demonstrated conclusively that it is possible to generate full names using BibTex.

The example above results in:

Waldo Smith (1993) demonstrated conclusively that it is possible to generate full names using BibTex.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX: Abbreviate first name (aka given name) to 2 or 3 letters (not 1)

Just replace the first name in question, say Csaba, with {\relax Cs}aba.

More generally, place the part of the name that is to be unaffected by the abbreviation inside a TeX group, which is a field that's delimited by { and }, and insert the command \relax at the beginning of that group.

Another example of how to make use of this method: To help one's readers distinguish the works authored by "Timothy Jones" and "Thomas Jones", one could set the respective author fields to "{\relax Tim}othy Jones" and "{\relax Th}omas Jones".

Here's an MWE that suggests how to deal with four authors whose last name is "Kovács" and first names begin with "C".

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
@Book{kovacs_ca,
  author  = "Carla Kov{\'a}cs",
  title   = "Title 1",
  year    = 1986,
  publisher = "Addison-Wesley"
}
@Book{kovacs_ch,
  author  = "{\relax Ch}arles Kov{\'a}cs",
  title   = "Title 2",
  year    = 1987,
  publisher = "Addison-Wesley"
}
@Book{kovacs_cs,
  author  = "{\relax Cs}aba Kov{\'a}cs",
  title   = "Title 3",
  year    = 1988,
  publisher = "Addison-Wesley"
}
@Book{kovacs_cy,
  author  = "{\relax Cyr}ill Kov{\'a}cs",
  title   = "Title 4",
  year    = 1989,
  publisher = "Addison-Wesley"
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{references}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Cite Author’s Full Name

As it turned out, in this particular instance it worked well enough for me to modify the BibTeX source itself:

@misc{bob2000,
  title={An exposition on the tastiness of apples},
  author={{Bob T. Smith}}
}

Note the double brackets {{ and }} in the entry, which cause display of the full author string, rather than some formatting thereof.

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