# Search by author's full or brief name

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-by-authors-full-or-brief-name/67265>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 27, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-by-authors-full-or-brief-name/67265 "2016-11-27T13:01:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vladimir\_Lyutetsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/838e76/32.png) [@Vladimir\_Lyutetsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladimir_Lyutetsky)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-by-authors-full-or-brief-name/67265/1 "2016-11-27T13:01:48Z")

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Hi all!

I need to search articles written by certain authors. The authors of the article are stored in the array "authors", and an author's name may be spelled as " **John Doe**", " **J Doe**" or even " **Doe J.**". Accordingly, the search string may also occur all mentoned spellings of the name of this author.

How do I properly configure the "authors" mapping to search carried out correctly? For example, the "J Doe" search string should find all articles with authors spelled with any of these combinations.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-by-authors-full-or-brief-name/67265/2 "2016-12-25T13:02:02Z")

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Closed on December 25, 2016, 1:02pm UTC

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