Convenience functions to manipulate and format citations. Only works with APA formatted citations, for now.
Usage
format_citation(citation, authorsdate = FALSE, short = FALSE, intext = FALSE)
cite_citation(citation)
clean_citation(citation)Arguments
- citation
A character string of a citation.
- authorsdate
Only show authors and date (remove title, journal, etc.).
- short
If more than one authors, replace by
et al.- intext
Remove brackets around the date (so that it can be placed inside larger parentheses).
Examples
library(report)
citation <- "Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Patil, I., & Ludecke, D. (2020).
Methods and Algorithms for Correlation Analysis in R. Journal of Open Source
Software, 5(51), 2306."
format_citation(citation, authorsdate = TRUE)
#> [1] "Makowski, Ben-Shachar, Patil, & Ludecke (2020)"
format_citation(citation, authorsdate = TRUE, short = TRUE)
#> [1] "Makowski et al. (2020)"
format_citation(citation, authorsdate = TRUE, short = TRUE, intext = TRUE)
#> [1] "Makowski et al., 2020"
cite_citation(citation)
#> [1] "(Makowski et al., 2020)"
clean_citation(citation())
#> [1] "R Core Team (2024). _R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing_. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. <https://www.R-project.org/>."