How can I insert reference inside text without putting brackets on the whole reference but on the year alone? For example, if I want to write … According to Jeff (2003)… endnote brings …(Jeff, 2003)… which is not consistent with the conventional writing styles. I have tried changing the Reference styles but to no avail. I understand that the barcketed reference works when you want to just indicate the source of fact and not necessarily directly referring to Author’s name in the text.
I have a similar problem. I am using endnote X4. I tired right clicking and the only thing I can find to do is “remove year”, which solves part of my problem, but if the reference I want is Jeff (2003), “Jeff” still comes up as "(Jeff)/ I would like it to come up without the brackets.
For X4 and earlier, the procedure is to remove the author , then type the author details in front of the citation “(year)”.
(To save time and typos, when working with long and/or multiple author names, copy-and-paste the author names in front of the citation first. Then remove author. And if using APA, the author separator “&” within parentheses needs to be changed to “and” outside the parentheses).