Help - Need style Author (Year) for citation
Hello,
Does anyone know of a style in zotero that places the following: Author (Year) for citation instead of (Author Year).
My field does not put authors in parentheses.
Does anyone know of a style in zotero that places the following: Author (Year) for citation instead of (Author Year).
My field does not put authors in parentheses.
(Smith 1776) and Smith (1776) depending on the context.
In Zotero you can get the letter by writing out the author in the word processor and then using supress author to just print the year in parentheses:
http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog
If anyone knows how to tweak this, please let me know.
It's technically possible to tweak this, but so far, every time someone has asked for it, it took me about 2mins to find a counterexample in a relevant journal - I know economics citations pretty well, so I'm pretty confident the same applies in your case.
Which journal(s) are you looking at?
The vast majority of my citations are in the author (date) format.
Any additional help would be helpful.
Thanks for your time in responding to my post.
JofF does indeed always have the date in parentheses. For that see here:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles
or here if you want to do it yourself:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
I have difficulty typing and having the names all print out would be helpful. It also reduces the potential for typos in the names (many in different languages).
The old EndNote program I used has one feature that would be nice to see in the Zotero program - that is a menu driven style editor that allows that change easily. They also have a panel that allows you to adjust the et.al. specification. For example, I can force it to print the names and then the year in parents, and I can have it use up to a specified number of authors until reverting to et. al..
American Psychological Association. (2009). Publication manual of the american psychological association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
or http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/11/the-proper-use-of-et-al-in-apa-style.html
Looking forward to your help.
i came here by searching in google, surprisingly, this issue has been a long time omission.
as hplieninger says, it is really a pain to manually type the author names plus et al.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5282/multiple-intext-citation-patterns/
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20374/field-level-prefix-and-suffix/#Item_10