thanks for the reply Yves.
Placing quotes around the fields seems like a good strategy to follow, although I could immediately find what line(s) of code I needed to do this on. Is there a particular term in the code I should search for? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Regarding your suggestion to standardise the format, I agree that avoiding confusion is important, but what I'm trying to achieve appears to be pretty much standard practice for in-text and end of sentence referencing. I checked against a few contemporary journals in my field and it seems to be as I remember it from many decades ago - when directly referring to the author in the sentence of the text, the brackets enclose the date but not the author. But this is different to citing a reference at the end of a sentence, where everything is contained within the brackets. Given that it does seem to be common practice at least in my field (fisheries science), I'm surprised this issue has popped up more in this forum?
Thanks
Placing quotes around the fields seems like a good strategy to follow, although I could immediately find what line(s) of code I needed to do this on. Is there a particular term in the code I should search for? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Regarding your suggestion to standardise the format, I agree that avoiding confusion is important, but what I'm trying to achieve appears to be pretty much standard practice for in-text and end of sentence referencing. I checked against a few contemporary journals in my field and it seems to be as I remember it from many decades ago - when directly referring to the author in the sentence of the text, the brackets enclose the date but not the author. But this is different to citing a reference at the end of a sentence, where everything is contained within the brackets. Given that it does seem to be common practice at least in my field (fisheries science), I'm surprised this issue has popped up more in this forum?
Thanks
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Mick