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CSL has rich configuration options for author and such name formatting. You can use citeproc like so.
First, define a CSL style, like so:
;; example borrowed from org-csl
;; https://github.com/rougier/org-bib-mode
(defvar my/author-name-csl
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>
<style xmlns=\"http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl\" class=\"in-text\" version=\"1.0\" demote-non-dropping-particle=\"never\">
<macro name=\"author-bib\">
<names variable=\"composer\" delimiter=\", \">
<name name-as-sort-order=\"all\" and=\"symbol\" sort-separator=\", \" initialize-with=\". \" delimiter=\", \" delimiter-precedes-last=\"always\"/>
<substitute>
<names variable=\"author\"/>
<names variable=\"illustrator\"/>
<names variable=\"director\">
<name name-as-sort-order=\"all\" and=\"symbol\" sort-separator=\", \" initialize-with=\". \" delimiter=\", \" delimiter-precedes-last=\"always\"/>
<label form=\"long\" prefix=\" (\" suffix=\")\" text-case=\"title\"/>
</names>
<names variable=\"editor\" delimiter=\", \">
<name name-as-sort-order=\"all\" and=\"symbol\" sort-separator=\", \" initialize-with=\". \" delimiter=\", \" delimiter-precedes-last=\"always\"/>
<label form=\"short\" prefix=\" (\" suffix=\")\" text-case=\"title\"/>
</names>
<names variable=\"editorial-director\">
<name name-as-sort-order=\"all\" and=\"symbol\" sort-separator=\", \" initialize-with=\". \" delimiter=\", \" delimiter-precedes-last=\"always\"/>
<label form=\"short\" prefix=\" (\" suffix=\")\" text-case=\"title\"/>
</names>
<names variable=\"collection-editor\">
<name name-as-sort-order=\"all\" and=\"symbol\" sort-separator=\", \" initialize-with=\". \" delimiter=\", \" delimiter-precedes-last=\"always\"/>
<label form=\"short\" prefix=\" (\" suffix=\")\" text-case=\"title\"/>
</names>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>
<bibliography >
<sort>
<key macro=\"author-bib\"/>
</sort>
<layout>
<text macro=\"author-bib\" />
</layout>
</bibliography>
</style>"
"CSL style to get only author names (as used in preview mode).")Then you can use citar-citeproc-format-reference like so:
(citar-citeproc-format-reference '("citekey") my/author-name-csl)