“Author’s name as part of narrative” in-text citation

[Nashi_Shuai]

It seems that someone has requested the feature in another post but was unnoticed. So, I just copy and paste his post here. After all, I really think the “suppress author option” is quite meaningless.

@Bruce_Borkosky

in addition to the suppress author option (resulting in the text “(1973)”), include an option that results in the text “Granovetter (1973)”. The current option (suppress author) causes a bit of extra typing (author name) that is really unnecessary (since PP already knows the author name). It would be delightful to have that option, and should not be too hard to implement! You could call it - Author’s name as part of narrative:

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[vicente]

Thanks for the request, @Nashi_Shuai. This has actually come up a few times over the years –

Newbie - changing format to Author (Year)

All is working well with Paperpile, however I cannot figure out how to change the citation to “Author (year)” for start of sentences. Thanks!! Update: I see this has been asked before. Where are we now with this?

How can I use Paperpile to cite the author's name as part of a narrative?

Hi, I’ve been enjoyed using Paperpile for a while now and wanted to see if there was a way to correctly cite author’s name as part of my narrative in the APA style? For example, I want to give some examples of themes in the literature and want to reference the work of Kazai, as an example. Is there a way of inserting the citation in my text so that it reads as: “Kazai et al. (2011) provided examples of themes…” instead of “(Kazai et al., 2011) provided examples of themes…”? I hope this make…

Add author name in front of parentheses when suppressing author - \citet in latex

Not sure whether I missed that feature or a corresponding feature request. I often refer to persons when citing them e.g. Müller (2003) instead of (Müller 2003). I know the “suppress author” button. However, there should also be a button to add the author in front of the parentheses automatically, e.g. Müller (2003). I have used such a feature in “Docear for Word” some months ago and it was very convenient. Thank you, Paul

It’s on our wishlist; we have so far prioritized implementing other (more demanded) topics which will be implemented soon. I have added your +1 to the topic on our internal tracker

[Luke_Rabelhofer]

It’s also frustrating because when I click “Update citations and bibliography” using the extension, it reverts all citations to the (Author, year) version and I need to go back and change all the narrative citations.

[jh7753]

I didn’t realize that it couldn’t do narrative citations, that’s bizarre that it would take so long to incorporate. Just ask ChatGPT for the code!

If you can use LaTeX, the good news is you just use the /textcite{} command.