name and date in square brackets

fgnievinski
Hi, my department style guide requires the use of name and date in square brackets, e.g., Adam and Smith [1979] or [Adam and Smith, 1979] -- any hints on what citation style might achieve that? Maybe only by modifying an author-year style to replace parentheses for brackets? Thanks!
  • LiborA
    See on https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/
  • fgnievinski
    thank you, I've found a near perfect match: the "First Break" citation style.

    but I forgot to mention an oddity of my dept.: only the in-text citation should use square brackets, the bibliographic item should use round parentheses.

    so I just wanted to confirm if this is not something configurable from within Zotero or its Word plugin -- I assume I'll have modify a CSL file?
  • damnation
    Exactly.
    Give it a try. If you run into issues you can ask here.
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