diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95bc5d8..66eedf3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Added the possibility of specifying a custom hex colour in the highlight setting and the transformation associated with this colour. Added a "{{CustomHex}}" placeholder in the template gathering all the highlight using that colour
 - The backlink now directs to the specific annotation rather than the page in the pdf file (thanks to @CaoKang-David)
 - It is possible to name the notes with the author (thanks to @ThomasFKJorna)
+- Added {{firstNameInitials}} to the placeholders available to format the name of authors/editors. This is in addition to {{firstName}} and {{lastName}}
+
+### Bugs
+- Fixed bugs that prevented notes added in Zotero using markdown from being formatted properly
+
 
 ## [0.9.10]
 ### Improvement
diff --git a/manifest.json b/manifest.json
index ba07431..7ced71e 100644
--- a/manifest.json
+++ b/manifest.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "bibnotes",
   "name": "BibNotes Formatter",
-  "version": "0.9.149",
+  "version": "0.9.151",
   "minAppVersion": "0.12.0",
   "description": "Plugin to import and format annotations from Zotero.",
   "author": "Stefano Pagliari",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dd08958..9b55c71 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "bibnotes",
-	"version": "0.9.149",
+	"version": "0.9.151",
 	"description": "Plugin to export and format annotations from Zotero into Obsidian",
 	"main": "main.js",
 	"scripts": {
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 		"debugout.js": "^1.0.0",
 		"loglevel": "^1.8.0",
 		"node": "^17.2.0",
-		"tslint": "^6.1.3"
+		"tslint": "^6.1.3",
+		"turndown": "^7.1.1"
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index 0f074cf..e0520ec 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ import { Plugin, Notice, normalizePath } from "obsidian";
 
 import path from "path";
 
+import 'turndown'
+
+
+
 // wasn't actually used
 //import { BooleanLiteral, isTokenKind } from "typescript";
 
@@ -488,7 +492,14 @@ export default class MyPlugin extends Plugin {
 
 	parseAnnotationLinesintoElementsUserNote(note: string) {
 
-		note = note
+
+		
+		// Replace html formatting with markdown formatting
+		const turndownService = new TurndownService()
+		note = turndownService.turndown(note)
+
+
+		note = note 
 			// Replace backticks
 			.replace(/`/g, "'")
 			// Correct when zotero exports wrong key (e.g. Author, date, p. p. pagenum)
@@ -511,8 +522,11 @@ export default class MyPlugin extends Plugin {
 			// Replace backticks with single quote
 			selectedLine = replaceTemplate(selectedLine, "`", "'");
 			//selectedLine = replaceTemplate(selectedLine, "/<i/>", "");
-			// Correct encoding issues
-			selectedLine = replaceTemplate(selectedLine, "&amp;", "&");
+			// Correct encoding issues with special character showing incorrectly
+			selectedLine = replaceTemplate(selectedLine, "&amp;", "&").replace(/&lt;/g,'<').replace(/&gt;/g,'>').replace(/&amp;/g,'&');
+
+
+			console.log(selectedLine)
 
 			const lineElements: AnnotationElements = {
 				highlightText: "",
@@ -546,6 +560,7 @@ export default class MyPlugin extends Plugin {
 		return noteElements;
 	}
 	parseAnnotationLinesintoElementsZotero(note: string) {
+		
 		// clean the entire annotation
 		note = note
 			// .replace(
@@ -579,6 +594,8 @@ export default class MyPlugin extends Plugin {
 			// 	// Correct encoding issues
 			selectedLine = replaceTemplate(selectedLine, "&amp;", "&");
 
+			console.log(selectedLine)
+
 			const lineElements: AnnotationElements = {
 				highlightText: "",
 				highlightColour: "",
@@ -839,7 +856,6 @@ export default class MyPlugin extends Plugin {
 			const HexRegex = new RegExp(/#([a-fA-F0-9]{6})/g);	
 		
 			if(HexRegex.test(lineElements.highlightColour)){
-				console.log(lineElements.highlightColour)
 				const colorClassifier = new ColorClassifier(Palette.RAINBOW, AlgorithmTypes.HSV);
 			lineElements.highlightColour = colorClassifier.classify(String(lineElements.highlightColour.match(HexRegex)), "hex");
 			}   
@@ -868,7 +884,6 @@ export default class MyPlugin extends Plugin {
 				lineElements.highlightColour = "magenta";
 			}  
 			
-		console.log(lineElements.highlightColour)
 
 		}
 		
diff --git a/src/settings.ts b/src/settings.ts
index 79e2ee5..3a36c37 100644
--- a/src/settings.ts
+++ b/src/settings.ts
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ export class SettingTab extends PluginSettingTab {
 
 			new Setting(settingsExport)
 			.setName("Format Names")
-			.setDesc('Specify how the names of the authors/editors should be exported.')
+			.setDesc('Specify how the names of the authors/editors should be exported. Accepted values are {{firstName}}, {{lastName}} and {{firstNameInitials}}')
 			.addTextArea((text) =>
 				text
 				.setValue(settings.nameFormat)
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index f8546c0..3abe7ba 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -148,6 +148,17 @@ export function formatCreatorsName(creator: Creator, nameCustom: string) {
 	) {
 		nameCustom = nameCustom.replace("{{lastName}}", creator.lastName);
 		nameCustom = nameCustom.replace("{{firstName}}", creator.firstName);
+		const getInitials = function (string:string) {
+			let names = string.split(' '),
+				initials = names[0].substring(0, 1).toUpperCase()+".";
+		
+			if (names.length > 1) {
+				initials += names[names.length - 1].substring(0, 1).toUpperCase()+".";
+			}
+			return initials;
+		};
+
+		nameCustom = nameCustom.replace("{{firstNameInitials}}", getInitials(creator.firstName));
 		nameCustom = nameCustom.trim();
 		return nameCustom;
 	} else if (