report (version 0.6.0)

format_citation: Citation formatting

Description

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)

Value

A character string.

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)
format_citation(citation, authorsdate = TRUE, short = TRUE)
format_citation(citation, authorsdate = TRUE, short = TRUE, intext = TRUE)

cite_citation(citation)
clean_citation(citation())