Friends, as an education researcher I follow the APA 6 style guidelines which call for simple in-line citations. Under that rubric, when you cite an author’s name in the body of the sentence you simply follow with a parenthetical citation of the year of the work being referenced. A hotkey combination to allow me to insert just the year would be fantastic!
Currently, my workflow looks like this (I work on Mac OS 10.8.2):
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Select the reference I wish to insert (I do this by searching - command-F - from the library of references)
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Hit the hotkey combo: shift-command-i to insert the reference
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Go back to my Word 2011 document
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Right-click on the reference in question
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From the contextual menu select Edit Citation: Exclude Author
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Go back to writing
My proposed workflow would be shortened the following:
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Select the reference to insert
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Hit the hotkey combo: shift-command-y to insert just the year
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Go back to writing
I cannot tell you how much time this would save me in my writing. I am working on my dissertation and have hundreds of works that I am citing and I must cite each of them with some frequency. This would shave thousands of mouse-clicks and a big chunk of time off of my writing.
Thanks for considering the addition of the year-only hotkey combo.