Can you insert an in-text citation in bibliographic format?

wonblee
Is it possible to insert an in-text reference in bibliographic format, as opposed to (author-date) or [number]?

The "create bibliography from item..." in Zotero gets close to what I need but not quite, because it bypasses the abbreviation filter of MLZ and does not allow pinpoint locator.
  • adamsmith
    what do you mean by "bibliography format" more precisely?
    If you look, say, at the Chicago Full Note style, does that look kind of like what you want?
    In your style you can pretty much define anything for a citation that you could define for a bibliography. The only options not available are line spacing, hanging indent/second field align, and subsequent author-substitute.
  • wonblee
    edited February 15, 2014
    Let's say I wanted to insert the full bibliographic information in the body text. If I'm not mistaken, the Word plugin allows me to insert either an in-text citation or footnote citation, but neither allows me to insert the full bibliographic information - e.g., Herbert A. Simon, A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice, 69 The Q. J. of Econ. 99 (1955) - in the body text. The ability to insert the full bibliographic information will come in handy when I'm creating a course syllabus for example.
  • adamsmith
    But that's why I'm asking you to be more precise. What constitutes the "Full bibliographic information" to you?

    You could just take the chicago full note style, e.g. and change it from class="note" to class="in-text" - to print
    Herbert A. Simon, “A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 69, no. 1 (1955): 99–118.

    in the body of the document. Is that what you're after? There is no reason an "in-text citation" needs to be limited to author-date or a number. That's just practically what most of them are.
  • wonblee
    You are absolutely right! I had no idea that class="in-text" would insert the reference info in the body text. I wrongly thought you had to choose some form of call-out to the reference, be it a footnote number or [author-date]. This is going to make my life so much easier.

    BTW, by "full bibliographic information", I just meant reference in conformation to the particular style, be it Chicago, Vancouver or Bluebook.
  • wonblee
    Ok, chancing class="note" to class"in-text" in cs:style worked for the Chicago style, But doing the same to my Bluebook style doesn't change anything. It still inserts references as footnotes. Any idea why?
  • adamsmith
    no. Might be a validation issue. IIRC your style doesn't fully validate and it's never quite clear what types of problems that causes.
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