Re: APA citations: page number only (or at end)?

[Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

#7206 is closed, but I think it merits re-opening as there is one bug and one issue -- running 2.14.0.2.

First, if there's another apostrophe in the sentence, the smart punctuation is backwards.
Second, I expected the apostrophe to be on the last last name, not after the parentheses.

https://reagle.org/joseph/2016/04/min-eg/cite-apostrophe.md ->

https://reagle.org/joseph/2016/04/min-eg/cite-apostrophe.html



On 21-04-05 14:45, John MacFarlane wrote:
> I've been wanting this too.  You could propose on the tracker
> a way to specify just the locator.  I don't know about the syntax
> though.  Maybe double dash would work well, as you suggest.
> Does anyone have any reactions to this one way or the other?
> 
> 
> Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>> I haven't used the author/year format in a while and I wonder what's the current best practice for the typical APA pattern:
>>
>> ```
>> According to Jones (1998), "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
>> ```
>>
>> Do we still have to manually format the page number?
>>
>> ```
>> According to @Jones1998, "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
>> ```
>>
>> Instead of suppressing author and year (with a double hyphen, for example):
>>
>> ```
>> According to @Jones1998, "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" [--@Jones1998, p. 199].
>> ```