Thanks for the answer.

I think it could be useful for further development to have an "exclude year"-box just below the "exclude author"-box. (Especially if you're quoting an author already mentionned a few lines before and you just want to add the page number of the quotation, this would be useful.)

Jeanne

Il me semble que l'usage de l'éditeur est globalement déconseillé.
Il y a d'ailleurs un avertissement explicite: « Warning: If you edit a citation in the editor it will no longer update to reflect changes in your database or the citation style ».

De plus, pour afficher "ibidem", il vaut mieux choisir un style qui gère automatiquement les "subsequent citation".

Hello,

I have the same Problem like Jeanne, I also want to exclude the year from a in-text-citation. Especially it is useful when I write something like this:

XXYY (1998) says, that ...

So I'm joining Jeanne's request to add a "exclude year"-Box or a "Author-only"-Box in further development!
(Because using Editor is inappropriate, see Gracile's answer.)

P.S. Please use English language when you answer a English discussion...

P.P.S. But fortunately there is Google translator...

Hello,

I also need to be able to exclude the year from citations, and am wondering if this is possible now. I don't follow the French above, but am wondering if this suggestion has been implemented.

Cheers,
Laurie

Hi Adam! It actually comes up semi-regularly for me. The most common example is when I need to add a page number for a quote when I've already included the author and date in the same sentence, or when I've been discussing one piece of research in depth for a paragraph.

E.g.:


Because it was published so late, Thomas Cobb's 1858 treatise on laws regarding slavery in the US had little impact on the debate about slavery, though with forthright claims that Blacks lacked judgment and imagination, were indolent, naturally mendacious, thievish, lascivious, and were hardly troubled by separation from their children (p. 39-40), it could certainly have roused abolitionist sentiments and sparked much debate.


Or, from an earlier paper in which I've been discussing the same piece of (already cited) research for a paragraph:


For Eisenberg, “[t]he key is to study how such structural factors and social changes literally affect our physiological status” (p. 396), and she sees sociologists as best prepared to analyze the relationship between changing social expectations of children in classrooms and common medical treatment of nonconforming children.


I think it would be a useful feature, and I'm surprised more people haven't asked for it. I'm trying to make the transition from Papers to Zotero, and I was surprised this feature wasn't included in Zotero.

Well, if I need to change styles because I'm changing to another style for a particular journal, the manner of indicating page numbers may not be the same (p. 3) or (pp. 3). I most often write in APA which actually requires that for multiple citations of the same source in the same paragraph, the year should be included the first time, and then should be excluded thereafter.

From http://ego.thechicagoschool.edu/s/843/index.aspx?gid=14&pgid=583

"Multiple citations of same source in a paragraph:

Cite author(s) and year in first citation and exclude year in subsequent citations of the same work within a paragraph (as long as the study cannot be confused with other studies cited in the paper)

- First time: Wasserstein et al. (1994) found…

- Second time: Wasserstein et al. found…"

So, while it may initially be easier to just put in the page numbers by hand, I want to manage my citations with a reference manager that can reformat my document into a different style if necessary, and those by-hand changes wouldn't be handled correctly.