Narrative Citations APA 7th Edition

acatarina

Hello everyone,

I´m a recent user of Zotero and I would like to know if any of you could help with narrative citations. How can I do it? I tried already the "suppress author" tool but it's not exactly what a want. I would like something like "Author's name (2014)". By the way, I'm writing with APA 7th edition.

Thank you!

dstillman

That's exactly what "Suppress Author" lets you do. You have to type the part outside of the parentheses yourself.

https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#suppress_authorsusing_authors_in_the_text

acatarina

Thank you for your help!

dovando

Is there any plan for a feature to do this formatting automatically? i.e. to automatically generate "Author's name (2014)" instead of "(Author's name 2014)"? Love Zotero but this has been a big shortcoming for me; I mostly work in Markdown or LaTeX where this sort of thing is easy, but the need to manually type in the author names after using "suppress author" in Word is a stumbling block for uptake by my students, particularly when they have lots of citations to deal with

dstillman

Is there any plan for a feature to do this formatting automatically?

Yes.

johnmy

In the CSL 1.1?

bwiernik

CSL 1.1 will formally support this, but the necessary technical components are already in Zotero and its citation processor, so it could potentially happen before CSL 1.1 is finalized.

johnmy

@bwiernik Great news.

Hope this beta version coming soon.

jayghandi

Hi everyone. Any news on this update?

dstillman

It's being worked on.

WBCotton

Any chance that this is working yet?

jackpeplinski

Any timeline on this?