In-text/Inline citation modification

rfpg

Hi guys,

How can I change just the In-text citation while keeping the reference style?

I need to use the Cell style for the references in my thesis. But I am facing two problems with its In-text citation format ("Name, year"):

1) Unnecessary space consume
2) Impossibility to cite references that are in websites. The following message appears as In-text citation: "CSL Style Error: reference with no printed form".

I am allowed and would like to use a numeric citation format "(1)". I have been trying to change just the In-text citation style in Zotero while keeping the reference Cell style but without success.

I am new in Zotero. Is this actually possible?

adamsmith

Generally not without modifying the style, but
https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:the-american-journal-of-human-genetics looks like it would do what you want (though with a superscript number instead of (1) in the text)

scottyhuff

To add to this, I have a paper that must be done in APA format. There are times when I mention the author's name and need to cite the year only. If I modify the typical citation (Name, year) to just (year) THEN refresh the links, Zotero will either remove the link from the citation and keep my changes or keep the link and put the citation back to (Name, date). Is there any way around this?

bwiernik

In the Add/Edit Citation window, click the blue bubble for the item and check the suppress author box. Then type the name in text.

scottyhuff

Thank you bwiernik! Just to let you know, I did not see a blue button anywhere (I'm using the MS Word add-on) but when I switched to "classic view" while inserting a citation, there is a checkbox to suppress the name. That worked great. Thanks for your help. :-)

bwiernik

I meant “blue bubble” for the item in the text box.

scottyhuff

OH!!! I see what you mean. I never thought of that as clickable. When the item appears in the text box, I just hit ENTER. This is even easier!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

bwiernik

From the keyboard, you can also type Ctrl/Cmd+Down Arrow to open the dialog.

rfpg

SOLUTION

1. Select Documents Preferences in the Zotero Tab on Word

2. Select the cell citation style pre-install in zotero and click “manage styles”

3. Click on style editor

4. Click and selected “cell” if its not selected and then place the cursor in the text and press “ctrl + a”

5. Press “delete”

6. Copy the code below:
<?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="sort-only" default-locale="en-US">
<info>
<title>Cell journals (numeric)</title>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/cell-numeric</id>;
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/cell-numeric"; rel="self"/>
<link href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/authors"; rel="documentation"/>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Karcher</name>
</author>
<contributor>
<name>Julian Onions</name>
<email>julian.onions@gmail.com</email>
</contributor>
<category citation-format="numeric"/>
<category field="biology"/>
<summary>The style for Cell Journals using numerical citations, such as Current Biology</summary>
<updated>2016-07-28T09:56:00+00:00</updated>
<rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
</info>
<macro name="editor">
<names variable="editor" delimiter=", ">
<name and="text" initialize-with=". " delimiter=", "/>
<label form="short" prefix=", "/>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="author">
<names variable="author">
<name name-as-sort-order="all" and="text" sort-separator=", " initialize-with="." delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always"/>
<et-al font-style="italic"/>
<label form="short" prefix=" "/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<text variable="title"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="access">
<choose>
<if variable="URL">
<text value="Available at:" suffix=" "/>
<text variable="URL"/>
<group prefix=" [" suffix="]">
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</if>
</choose>
</macro>
<macro name="title">
<text variable="title"/>
</macro>
<macro name="publisher">
<group prefix="(" delimiter=": " suffix=")">
<text variable="publisher-place"/>
<text variable="publisher"/>
</group>
</macro>
<macro name="edition">
<choose>
<if is-numeric="edition">
<group delimiter=" ">
<number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
<text term="edition" form="short"/>
</group>
</if>
<else>
<text variable="edition" suffix="."/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
<citation collapse="citation-number">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout prefix="[" suffix="]" delimiter=",">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
</citation>
<bibliography et-al-min="11" et-al-use-first="10" second-field-align="flush">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout suffix=".">
<text variable="citation-number" suffix="."/>
<text macro="author"/>
<date variable="issued" prefix=" (" suffix=").">
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
<choose>
<if type="bill book graphic legal_case legislation motion_picture report song" match="any">
<group delimiter=" " prefix=" ">
<text macro="title"/>
<text macro="edition"/>
<text macro="editor"/>
<text macro="publisher"/>
</group>
</if>
<else-if type="chapter paper-conference" match="any">
<group delimiter=" " prefix=" ">
<text macro="title" suffix="."/>
<text term="in" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
<text variable="container-title"/>
<text variable="collection-title" suffix="."/>
</group>
<text macro="editor" prefix=", "/>
<group suffix=".">
<text macro="publisher" prefix=" "/>
<group prefix=", ">
<label variable="page" suffix=" " form="short"/>
<text variable="page"/>
</group>
</group>
</else-if>
<else>
<text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
<group delimiter=", " prefix=" " suffix=".">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short"/>
<text variable="volume" font-style="italic"/>
</group>
<text variable="page"/>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
<text prefix=" " macro="access"/>
</layout>
</bibliography>
</style>

7. Paste in the empty field and click “save as” at the top left hand corner

8. Name it “cell numeric” and click save (remember where you saved the file)

9. Go to zotero preferences and click the little “+” button at the bottom right

10. Go to the folder whereyou saved the newly created citation style and select the file.

11. Done!!!

12. Now you can go to “document preferences”, select the newly installed citation style, then refresh!

13. Done done!!!

14. Update coming soon (we have square brackets not semi-circles)!!!