Inline citation style
I'm trying to figure out how to change the style of inline citation uses. Currently I have this sentence:
(Hillman, Castelli, & Buck, 2005) showed similar benefits using...
but I'd like to change it to:
Hillman, Castelli, & Buck (2005) showed similar benefits using...
The latter feels more like APA style and works nicer at the beginning of sentences. Is there a way to change this?
(Hillman, Castelli, & Buck, 2005) showed similar benefits using...
but I'd like to change it to:
Hillman, Castelli, & Buck (2005) showed similar benefits using...
The latter feels more like APA style and works nicer at the beginning of sentences. Is there a way to change this?
(Note that APA specifies you should use "and" rather than "&" when typing authors in text like this.)
(We may eventually add an option for these types of citations and there are some reasons -- such as adjust et al -- you may want them to be generated by Zotero, but that's not going to be any time very soon).
<layout delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="issued-year" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
</group>
<text macro="citation-locator" prefix=":"/>
</layout>
creates output in "names (year)" format. But, of course, for all inline citation in the document.
Johnson et al. (2006); Smith & Jones (2005); Harper (2006)
which is really not helpful in any situation. You can certainly create code like this, but it will be very inflexible (e.g., as you can see, it would be hard to handle multi-source citations well). Also, as you note, you cannot have both Author (Year) and (Author, Year) style citations automatically formatted in the same document. I think that cases where someone would want only Author (Year) style references are extremely rare, so Zotero and CSL's current default behavior for styles to support (Author, Year) automatically and to do Author (Year) through suppress-author is probably the most efficient.
Certainly, I would love for CSL to support both citation styles. Adding this support to the language, though, requires both deciding exactly how formatting would work (e.g., how should they be coded, how this code should be interpreted by processors, deciding what edge cases need to be supported, identifying the diversity of formatting variations that exist) and updating many existing styles to add the new formatting styles. So, there is a lot of work to do on this, so it will be a long time until full support for both formats will be added.
I've always assumed it wasn't possible, but I could be wrong.
Smith (1776) for author-date
Smith [1] for numeric and
Smith{FN} for note based styles
This is a fairly massive change, but actually would be an improvement in terms of switching back and forth to the status quo, where you get
Smith {FN} for the last case.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pandoc-discuss/MNJqCSZImJ0/discussion
Great tool.
See the documentation, specifically under Narrative Citations with Omit Author ("According to Smith (1776)")
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
(For devs: In that documentation page, there is still the mention of "Suppress Author" near the end of the page, and one of the snapshots of the Add Citation bubble still shows "Suppress Author".)