# Mixing (author, year) with (year)

**URL:** <https://community.endnote.com/t/mixing-author-year-with-year/732102>\
**Category:** EndNote Styles, Filters, and Connections\
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/mixing-author-year-with-year/732102 "2025-11-06T02:48:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![sedffew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sedffew](https://community.endnote.com/u/sedffew)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/mixing-author-year-with-year/732102/1 "2025-11-06T02:48:51Z")

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Endnote 20, latest MS word, Windows. I mostly use (author, year) format for my inline citations, e.g. “It was discovered that something has a property (author, year)”. However, for the sake of flow, some of sentences are formatted as “Author et al. (year) did something and discovered something” (formatted per my PI’s request). I can manually type out the latter since they don’t show up often, but then how do I add the actual reference to the bibliography (ordered alphabetically by author last name)? Or can/should I use two different citation styles in the same document?

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**Author:** ![sedffew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sedffew](https://community.endnote.com/u/sedffew)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/mixing-author-year-with-year/732102/3 "2025-11-18T05:37:01Z")

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Yep that’s exactly what I’m looking for. Thank you!