I use a style with footnotes - but need author in text

eagleice
Hello. I use Zotero with a style that produces footnotes when I cite something, and it works perfectly fine for me.

From time to time I mention an author in the text, and also would like to insert the author and year with the zotero plugin. Is there a way to do so?

"For example I write this sentence and mention Smith (2006) who already did so. Also interesting is the text produced by Adam(2009), who discovered xxx."

Or from time to time I just need to mention the Author, without the year.

I think you know what I'm refering to. Maybe you can help me.
  • adamsmith
    no. You can only use one style in a document, so it's either footnotes or author-date.
    (Is what you're trying to do required or suggested by any official style? I'd say it's a bad idea to mix citations style - if you want to mention an author in the text do that, but follow that with a FN and not with a date).
  • eagleice
    Thank you adamsmith for your answer. You are right: the idea of mixing styles is not a good idea. So I will leave the year out. But from time to time I have to use the Author(s) in the text. Is there a way to do so automatically, or do I have to type them by hand? (no big deal, I am asking more out of curiosity)

    e.g.: Doe/Johnson/Lambert argue that...

    So that the author part ends up as a automated Zotero-Field?

    Thank you.
  • ajlyon
    Usually, people type author names that are part of the main prose of a paper. This might introduce room for typos, but there's only so much that Zotero can do for you.
  • eagleice
    No big deal anyway, I was asking more out of curiosity. Thank you ajlyon and adamsmith.

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