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Citation formatting

Source: R/format_citation.R
format_citation.Rd

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).

Value

A character string.

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/>."