Short Form (Author-Date) Cites

When you set the reference style for your open document, you will have the opportunity to select Short Form.

Short Form Citations are references in the text of a paper or manuscript, usually including the Author's last name, and the year of publication (i.e., Smith 1980). A short form citation in the text of a paper sometimes includes specific page references (Smith & Jones 1992: 23). The short form citations are a kind of "shorthand" for full bibliographic citations of works that are listed in the Reference List at the end of the document.

Here is an example of a passage from a paper with Short Form Citations in the document, and a reference list:

Nothing seemed so certain as the results of the early studies (Smith 1989, p. 445). It was precisely this level of apparent certainty, however, which led to a number of subsequent challenges to the techniques used to process the data (Jones 1990, p. 879). There were a number of fairly obvious flaws in the data: consistencies and regularities that seemed most irregular, upon close scrutiny (Jones 1990, p. 884; Smith 1989, p. 457).

Jones, Michael R. 1990. Cooking the data? Science News 8: 878-891.

Smith, James. P. 1989. Studying certainty. Science and Culture 9: 442-463.

Sometimes, short form cites include only the author's name and the page reference.

When the Short Form radio button is selected, you will be able to select whether you want to choose the style by name or by pattern. Choose 'by Name' to display a list of publishing styles that are available. Choose 'by Pattern' to display a list of patterns.

For more information on how to set the style, see Reference Style or In-Text Citation Format. For more information on how to insert citations, see Inserting Citations.