additional citation modes

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Various note styles (Chicago Manual of Style, SBL, IBFD, Indigo) describe how to enter references in the text without creating a note e.g. as “remedies for excessive annotation” or for other stylistic reasons.

Lately, narrative citations have found some attention with the implementation of the new cs:intext element which will allow independent narrative ‘author’-group formatting for all kinds of styles.

According to https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/141#issuecomment-637806027 — as I understand it — rendering the entire citation intext when using a note style is currently not possible.

Describe the solution you’d like Like the implemented solution for narrative citations, the solution should not hinder switching between note styles and parenthetical styles.

Probably two measures are necessary: - a flag to mark citations that should not go into a note but in parentheses and - a CSL element, sibling to cs:citation which can be used if the parenthetical citation should be formatted differently from the note citation.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered The cs:intext element can be mis-used as a workaround together with the author-only flag, which, however, means that you can’t use combined narrative citations as they are currently in implementation. It‘s not improbable that the workaround will be exploited by one style author or the other.

Additional remark If the solution is impossible in general with CSL, not only now, this issue should serve to document it for further reference.

Examples

• Full parenthetical citation (CMoS 17:13.65):
  “If an astronaut falls into a black hole, its mass will increase, but eventually the energy equivalent of that extra mass will be returned to the universe in the form of radiation. Thus, in a sense, the astronaut will be ‘recycled’ ” (Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes [New York: Bantam Books, 1988], 112).

• Shortened subsequent citations (CMoS 17:13.66):

  • ibidem position: (Hawking, 114) or (ibid., 114)
  • else: (Hawking, Brief History of Time, 114)

• Shortened subsequent citations (IBFD Standard Citations and References — they give parenthetic examples for every document type which they define):

  • [within a sentence:] Avery Jones et al. (2006, section 2.3.1.)
  • [at the end of a sentence:] (Avery Jones et al. 2006, section 2.3.1.).

• Shortened citation to an Austrian law: In §3 Covid-19-LockerungsV wird zudem ein Abstand von einem Meter zwischen MitarbeiterInnen vorgeschrieben.
  [That’s locator + short-title in-text, nothing’s left for the parenthesis. I think, this kind of citation will hardly be entered via citation management sw].

• Full parenthetical citation (again, CMoS 17:13.65) – IMO never possible with a reference management sw:
  In their introduction to Democracy in America (University of Chicago Press, 1999), translators Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop write that Tocqueville “shows that the people are sovereign, whether through the Constitution or despite it, and he warns of the tyranny of the majority” (xvii).

[bdarcus]

I think foot and margin (other electronic innovations, like hover and display) notes are good practices to keep.

I’m not a fan of endnotes in printed documents as a reader though. Those should go away 😉

[bdarcus]

OK, I added the 1.1 milestone to this, so we don’t lose track of it.

I’m not sure we want to include cs:intext without settling this question.

In the meantime, I’ll also change the title, per your suggestion.