Forest plot study labeling

General
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Hi everyone,

for my meta-analysis that I am conducting with metafor, I am trying to create a forest plot of my first RMA ("model1").

forest(model1, slab=paste(data$Reference), xlab = "Hedges' g")

This works fine, but still on the left side the studies are labeled "Study1" etc. (till "Study36"). How can I change these labels into the actual names of the studies (author, year)? I have already tried
slab=paste(data$Reference)
but this does not work since the original dataset includes more effect sizes than model1 because there were sometimes several effect sizes per sample, so I pooled them. Thus, in total, there are 46 lines in the original dataset, but only 36 effect sizes that I want to include in the forest plot.
Maybe I can solve the problem labeling the studies manually? How would that work?

Second question: How can I add titles to the columns, such as "Author & Year" and "g [95% CI]"?
Thanks already!

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Could you please turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)? It will help us help you if we can be sure we're all working with/looking at the same stuff.

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