Modify how citations are written in Word

terrapoli

Greetings everyone,

I'd like to change how Zotero writes the citations. I have always used the form (Author, year) but now I need to write only the year, only the author, the full name of the document and more. The bibliography should remain the same (any type is good).
My versions is the 5.0.55.

Thanks in advance to anyone who will help solve this problem.

bwiernik

You can change your citation style for the document in the Document Preferences window in the Zotero tab in Word. Chicago (full Note) is one style like you describe. What style specifically are you looking for?

terrapoli

Thanks for the first answer, it already helped!
Specifically, I'm currently looking for a way to cite authors inside the text. I give you an example.
From this: "The definition is xxx (Author, year)".
To this: "The definition is provided by Author and is xxx".

Thank you again.

adamsmith

That doesn't really seem like a formal citation at all to me. What citation style is that supposed to be?

terrapoli

I want to construct a paragraph in which the name of the author is part of the sentences and not a footer or in brackets. That name has to appear in the bibliography in the end of the sheet.
Is this a formal citations? If not, I will try all other available styles until I find one that suits my needs.

adamsmith

And do all citations in the text look like that? And how, e.g., would you distinguish between multiple works by the same author?

What is possible with existing styles is to type the author in the text and then use "suppress author" in the Word add-on to only show the year as in

"Smith (1776) emphasizes the importance of division of labor for the economy".

If you really want just the author in the text, there is no existing citation style that does this. It's possible to do with a Zotero/CSL citation styles, but I'm wondering if you're not better of just not using the Zotero add-on but writing your text, moving citations into a dedicated Zotero collection, and simply creating a Zotero bibliography from that. Not ideal for a long text, but neither is that mode of citation.

terrapoli

No, I'm talking about a specific paragraph. Introductions sometimes require to cite the author vaguely. Of course I will distinguish better further in the text.

I think I solved my problem with your last idea, but let me ask you if I can just remove brackets manually. For example I use "Modern Language Association 8th edition" for a citation and then cancel round brackets. I see that bibliography remains intact.

Finally, let me thank you and bwiernik for the very quick answer that I really wasn't expecting!

bwiernik

For this case, use the Suppress Author option to reduce the citation to just the year and then type the authors in text manually.