I have 2 last names due to my hispanic background. Soon, I will have to think about my very first publication (field: Medicine/Psychology). Could I use only the first last name for my publishing or will I get into legal trouble with that? My goal is to avoid hassles after marriage, since we are planning to fuse our last names. So, assumed that my maiden name is A. Smith Miller, after marriage I'd be called A. Smith-Johnson, and my publishing name would be A. Smith. Is that possible, or is it mandatory to use the entire last name for publishing?
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I have a question about my choice of name for publication.  I recently got married and legally changed my name to my husband's surname (for example's sake: from Hunter to Jones). So, despite legally being Ms Jones now, I would quite like to use the hyphenated name Hunter-Jones in the professional context and in publications. This is so that people realise that it is still me and so that I can somewhat keep my maiden name.  Is this possible or do I have to use my legal name professionally and when publishing? Thank you for any help
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Reading the question posted  left me with a more general question:  Given the professional title and name: Dr. (First Name)(Last Name), is there some way to differentiate between the holder of a philosophical doctorate and a medical doctor? Wouldn't it be more appropriate for a PhD holder to have the title (First Name)(Last Name), PhD?
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I am an undergraduate student working for a professor this summer. Up to this point, I have referred to the professor as Dr. LastName. I have met his research group; his graduate and PhD students refer to him by his first name. Moreover, he signs his emails to me with his first name.  Is it acceptable to ask, through email, how he would like to be addressed? Or is it proper etiquette to wait for him to correct me? I would prefer to ask him in person, but I will not be seeing him for several weeks.   For example, in an email: "I have noticed that you sign your emails as 'FirstName'. Would you prefer that I address you as 'FirstName'?"
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Currently, when registering on my site, users are presented with a first name field and a lastname field (plus an email and password field as usual). My reasoning behind this was to encourage users to use their real name, rather than make up a fake one. This seems a bit heavy handed though, so my question is basically this: What can I do to encourage a user to use their real name when registering?
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If I am creating a board-game type game, does anyone know if it is legal to use others' names in the game?  ie. A playing card with "George Bush" or "Michael Jackson" on it.  Also, is it the same for brand names?
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Is this the correct use of an apostrophe when showing a name and relationship?     When was your father, Robert's, wedding?   Thanks!
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I just noticed . Its author doesn't have an account on this site, which makes it show up like this on the homepage:        It looks like a simple thing - but it gets in the way of the 'flow' of the page:        Couldn't we somehow get the author's name, so that migrated questions with authors that don't have an account here still show up, like this:        Much better. Please?
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Can I put the name of my baby as one of the co-authors of a scientific paper?  I know it sounds disturbing, but it's a way of mine to protest against co-authors that haven't made any contribution (they haven't even read it or are part of the research area) to a paper, but they are part of the research group.  What are the legal / ethic concerns?  So technically I was writing the paper with my baby in my hand and the baby was talking with me in its own language. The baby even wrote a few characters in the paper when it managed to get near the keyboard while I was holding it.
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While all the Hobbits I can think of have a combination of first- and lastname (e.g., Bilbo Baggins, Peregrin Took, the Sackville-Baggins's,...), I can't think of any character* of another race that has a lastname:   Men seem to like to add a reference to their ancestors (e.g., Aragorn, Arathorn's son or Isildur's heir) Dwarves seem to like descriptive or honorary names (e.g., Thorin Oakenshield, Dain Ironfoot). They are not lastnames though, since they do not get passed on to descendants. Elves don't have a need for lastnames, since elvish names are unique. Some nevertheless seem to have an additive (e.g., Legolas Greenleaf). Likewise, I can't find any usage of lastnames among Ents, Eagles, Istari, Orcs, trolls,...   But why would a society that is quite rural and not a leader of modernization be the only one to use a modern naming system with first- and lastnames?  *Except for Tom Bombandil. But he is, well, "special".
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If you have to send an email to someone acquaintance and you only know the first name, would you address him/her as Mr. John or Ms. Jane? The intention is to sound as formal as possible. So, no 'Hello John/Jane'
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I have worked with my adviser for a few months as a graduate student. Everyone, including her other graduate students, seems to call her by her first name. She never expressed a preference to me, so I've been calling her "Dr. Smith". She signs her emails with her first name.  I am worried that I am being awkward. I don't mind calling her "Dr. Smith", but during meetings where other students are present, it would be jarring to call her "Dr. Smith" while other students use her first name in the same conversation. So far, I have managed to avoid this issue by choosing my words very strategically to avoid directly addressing my adviser at all.  I don't wish my adviser to think that I am making some sort of statement by being unnecessarily formal. On the other hand, I don't wish to appear too informal either. Apart from that, once you've addressed someone by their title for several months, unceremoniously switching to their first name out of the blue seems like it would be very strange.  Is there any tactful way of resolving this predicament, besides waiting and hoping for the adviser to express a preference? I am in the US.
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,      &lt; 2% of people in the US have a #phd   Of those, 6.5% are Hispanic   By defending my PhD yesterday, I just became part of the 0.13% in the US that is #LatinoPhD   I find this statistic hard to believe, or if it is true maybe it is intentionally represented to look like a racial problem (although in my opinion Latino is not a race). Regarding my field, almost 40% of references are from Spanish surnames, 40% Chinese, and 20% European. Based on this analogy (maybe false) I think her statement is wrong. Is there any way or any source that can prove her claims?
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Just starting to explore the 'wonders' of regex.  Being someone who learns from trial and error, I'm really struggling because my trials are throwing up a disproportionate amount of errors...  My experiments are in PHP using ereg().  Anyway.  I work with first and last names separately but for now using the same regex.  So far I have:  ^[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+$     Any length string that starts with a capital and has only letters (capital or not) for the rest.  But where I fall apart is dealing with the special situations that can pretty much occur anywhere.   Hyphenated Names (Worthington-Smythe)   Names with Apostophies (D'Angelo)   Names with Spaces (Van der Humpton) - capitals in the middle which may or may not be required is way beyond my interest at this stage. Joint Names (Ben &amp; Jerry)   Maybe there's some other way a name can be that I'm no thinking of, but I suspect if I can get my head around this, I can add to it.  I'm pretty sure there will be instances where more than one of these situations comes up in one name.  So, I think the bottom line is to have my regex also accept a space, hyphens, ampersands and apostrophes - but not at the start or end of the name to be technically correct.
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My name is SALMAN. No Middle and Last name. How do I write my name in research paper or article?
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In my field (theoretical computer science), authors of any paper are always listed alphabetically; our papers .  (Well... hardly ever.)  In most other disciplines, at least within science and engineering, the ordering of authors is a signal about their relative contributions to the paper, with the first author indicating the most significant contributor.  Hiring and promotion committees do give extra weight to "first-author papers" (and sometimes have to be reminded that not all areas have them).  As an outsider, I find this practice confusing.  What does first authorship actually mean in your discipline? I understand vaguely that the first author is supposed to be the one who "", but what counts as "work" in this comparison?  Does "most" mean "more than all the other coauthors together" or just "more than any other coauthor"?  What happens when the comparison is unclear?   How often is "did the most work" the actual truth, versus a cover story for a more complex political decision?  I realize that the precise answer is different for every paper.  I'm looking for general guidelines for how an outsider (like me) should interpret first authorship in your field.  Pointers to guidelines from journals or professional societies would be especially helpful.  Please give only one answer per discipline.
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Are there written or unwritten rules for avoiding the use of first-person while writing research papers? I was advised at the beginning of my grad school to avoid use of first person - but I still don't know why I should do this.  I have seen that, at many places, authors refer to themselves are "the authors" and not "we". At the same time, I have also seen use of first-person to a good extent.    Do these things differ in different Journals and Conferences (and in different disciplines as well - mine happens to be CS)?
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When pluralizing family (last) names that also happen to be common English words, does the pluralization follow the same rules as the common word?  For example, "the Smith family" can be pluralized as "the Smiths", but what if the family name is "Wolf" or "Fish"?  Would the correct pluralization be "the Wolfs" or "the Wolves"?