Creating In-Text Citation Styles

In-text citations are also known as author-date styles or as Harvard styles. The APA style is the best-known style of this type.

Some in-text citation styles use a Shortened form of the author-date style. These styles Shorten the first letters of the authors' last names and use a two-digit. For example, in a typical author-date style the citation might look like this: (Doe, Miller, Wang 2013, p. 14). The styles using the Shortened form might look like this [DMW13:14].

Create a new style. On the File menu, click Citation Style Properties.

Switch to the Unknown reference type.

Drag the components you want to the In-text citation and Footnote rule sets. This allows you to use alternative formatting later on.

Format the components by double-clicking each one.

Drag parentheses where you need them.

The in-text citations have been defined. This rule set can now be inherited by other reference types.

Switch to Journal article. In the rule set for in-text citations, inherit the rule set that you defined under Unknown. Click Not inherited (1) > Inherit from (2) > Unknown (3). Repeat for all other reference types you used. (See: reusing rule sets)

Define the bibliography rule set for each reference type needed.