But you still need it to show up in the reference list, right, so just typing it doesn’t get the citation in the bibliography?
So here are two methods I have used with success that means you don’t have to type the name introducing possible typos
One trick I used to use was to copy the author out of the formatted reference, and then immediately right clicking, edit citation and hiding the author. This way you get exactly what you need like Author (year) if one author, Author and Author2 (year) if there are only two authors, and Author et al (Year) if three or more, if that is how your style is set up. Don’t forget to do the second step, or it will revert your citation to include the author again, after the next update. there is also a small chance of corrupting the document. ensure you don’t take the open parenthesis with the “copy”.
A second method is to turn off CWYW and convert to unformatted citations. Now it will look like this
{author, year This is usually the title}
You can drag the name out of the curly brackets and then adding et al, and updating later. – but caution as you will need to know how many authors there are and make adjustments which are automatic above.
I assume this only a infrequent need? (ah – I see from your OP that you need it for each one!)