Ambrose Li

I agree with @AdityaSavara about cultural norms. In fact the [W3C said the same thing exactly a decade ago](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names.en). (Not that they didn’t miss anything. They missed Hong Kong names,...

@AdityaSavara “Phan An” looks Vietnamese. In purely East Asian style names (the classic “CJKV” languages – Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese) the family name is first, but in Hong Kong (and apparently Taiwan now)...

I suppose what I was trying to say in my long comment is that if we *really* want to make CFF compatible with all possible citation formats, what we really...

ETA: I understand in French formal style (and say normal Hungarian order) they also do family names first, so first-name/last-name meaning literally written first and written last doesn’t work even...

@AdityaSavara There are a few assumptions here, for example, - We might think first name is preferred, but some people prefer their middle name (there are examples even if we...

@AdityaSavara It’s untrue that “almost all conventions split up on name order rather than name meaning.” Let me quote directly from CMOS 17, p. 951, 16.77 (“Indexing Chinese names” –...

@AdityaSavara Let be also quote directly from APA 7, p. 304, 9.45 (“Order of Surname and Given Name”): > Naming practices for the order of given name and surname vary...

Again, this is what they say in MLA 8, p. 102, 2.1 (“Names of Authors”, in the bibliography chapter): > *The author’s name should be presented last name first in...

This is not a style I’m familiar with but I’ll also quote directly [from the official NLM guidelines](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7250/#A39816): > Enter *surname (family or last name) first* for each author/editor [Emphasis...

I just read the StackExchange post and wanted to just jot down some thoughts: It is not known what the OP’s discipline was; all we know is they cite in...