add author (year) option

  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited January 5, 2026
    Customize the citation and use Omit Author. See "Narrative Citations with Omit Author” there. (A better way of doing this is planned.)
  • everdyx
    Yes, using omit author can do this, But, why not implement a function in an automatic way?
  • bwiernik
    See the last sentence of dstillman’s response
  • poettli
    It is said in the comment above yours:
    (A better way of doing this is planned.)
  • everdyx
    beside "omit author" checkbox, would there be another "author (year)" checkbox,
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Yes, but doing it properly is vastly more complicated than adding a checkbox (for reasons explained in some very long threads here). We've made some progress on the dependent parts and hope to offer something in the not-too-distant future.
  • CharlesLeow
    How about allowing users to copy the name of author in the dialog, as a temporary solution for convenience. Thank you.
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  • johanneswilm
    Sorry, I may have missed something here, but where does it say what is being planned in this regard? I'm working on another open source project and am trying to export docx/odt files with Zotero citations and the lack of the "author (year)" seems to set Zotero apart from a lot of other citation systems, so I'm wondering how to best translate this or whether it's best to just wait until this has been implemented in Zotero. But I can see that this issue has come up regularly over the past 15+ years, so maybe it's something that is more of a long-term goal and I should try to come up with a temporary solution until then?
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