::: Ah, ha, thanks Boghog!  I had never seen that, and now I understand where that awful parameter bloat in citations is coming from.  I try to avoid interacting with the "maintainers" of the citation module (perhaps you remember a go-round we had a few years back?).  And since they are parameter-driven, I don't know if you can get it by them.  Maybe we can just convince  to switch over to the Boghog template filler when he's operating on an FA?  I only worry about this on FAs since they need consistency in citation format, and I HATE the parameter bloat that mucks up articles with multiple name fields.