Zotero

Usually, it is not necessary to edit in-text citations generated by Zotero. However, there are some special cases where it will be necessary.

Author-date style in-text citations that follow the author's name in the body of the text.

In these cases, we need only the date portion of the normal author-date citation. Consider the the in-text citation below. We mention Yang by name and then repeat the name in the default Zotero citation when all we need is the date.

To fix this, select the citation and click "Add/Edit Citation" in the Zotero toolbar to open the search box:

Click on the citation name in the search box to open the edit dialog, then check the "Omit Author" box at the bottom.

Pressing "enter" updates the citation:

Specifying page numbers.

Page numbers can be added to in-text citations when using styles that support page numbering (like APA). Follow the steps aboveto get the edit citation dialog, then choose "page" (or whatever you need) from the dropdown:

Then enter the page number.

Pressing the "enter" key updates the citation:

Removing in-text citations is a simple 2-step process:

1. Manually delete the in-text citation by backspacing over it or highlighting and deleting it. This removes the in-text citation, but does not remove the entry from your bibliography or reference list.
2. Click the "Refresh" in the Zotero toolbar. This will update your bibliography and remove the entry, unless you have cited that paper elsewhere in your document.

The example text on this page was quoted from X. Yang, X. Li, and K. Xue, “A new traffic-signal control for modern roundabouts: method and application,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 282–287, Dec. 2004, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2004.838181.