I would like to change the appearance of Markdown citations to “Author et al., YYYY”.
The default is “[@{{citekey}}]”, which I do not find very appealing.
I have searched for quite a while, but could not find a straight forward way of how to achieve this. I would highly appreciate every hint or link to a related topic.
Hi @FabianKut and @RezoLoot . I’m the author of the linked forum post which involves the coding. Are you still looking for a solution? I have an updated version of my citation-code which I could share with you, if you are still interested. Since my old post is more than 3 months old, unfortunately I cannot update it anymore. But I could open a new one.
If I understand you correctly, Pandoc Reference List is the plugin that you need.
It “renders” a pandoc-style citation [@citekey] as a human-friendly Authors et al., YYYY format. I mean, it only changes how [@citekey] looks, and it does not change the actual citation format (which is good for future proofness and portability, as this pandoc style is the de-facto standard).
I’m not sure why this feature is not mentioned in README.
P.S. The above plugin only works for a pandoc citation (i.e. [@citekey]), and it doesn’t work for a link [[...]]. Personally, I prefer internal links to citations because of the connection made by them. So I use MathLinks as a workaround to implement something similar to what Pandoc Reference List does.
I mean, I add mathLink: "Authors et al., 2023" in the YAML frontmatter (or properties) using the templating feature of the ZotLit plugin (a plugin similar to Citations, but I believe it is more powerful if you’re a Zotero user).