That's exactly what "Suppress Author" lets you do. You have to type the part outside of the parentheses yourself.

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Updated instructions: Customize the citation and use Omit Author. See "Narrative Citations with Omit Author” there.

Is there any plan for a feature to do this formatting automatically? i.e. to automatically generate "Author's name (2014)" instead of "(Author's name 2014)"? Love Zotero but this has been a big shortcoming for me; I mostly work in Markdown or LaTeX where this sort of thing is easy, but the need to manually type in the author names after using "suppress author" in Word is a stumbling block for uptake by my students, particularly when they have lots of citations to deal with

In the CSL 1.1?

@bwiernik Great news.

Hope this beta version coming soon.

It's being worked on.

Any timeline on this?

Any update on this feature?

February 2025, any word on some narrative citations?