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diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 8a36c1d35..bd2f01c32 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -4976,9 +4976,9 @@ In a footnote style, it might render as See the [CSL user documentation] for more information about CSL styles and how they affect rendering. -If a citation key do not start with a letter, digit, or `_`, -and contain only alphanumerics and internal punctuation -characters (`:.#$%&-+?<>~/`), the key must be surrounded +Unless a citation key start with a letter, digit, or `_`, +and contains only alphanumerics and internal punctuation +characters (`:.#$%&-+?<>~/`), it must be surrounded by curly braces, which are not considered part of the key. In `@Foo_bar.baz.`, the key is `Foo_bar.baz`. The final period is not *internal* punctuation, so it is not included in @@ -5022,7 +5022,7 @@ author is already mentioned in the text: Smith says blah [-@smith04]. You can also write an author-in-text citation, by omitting the -brackets, as follows: +square brackets: @smith04 says blah. @@ -5038,7 +5038,7 @@ an explicit note. If you do write an explicit note that contains a citation, note that normal citations will be put in parentheses, while author-in-text citations will not. For this reason, it is sometimes preferable to use the -author-in-text style inside notes, when using a note style. +author-in-text style inside notes when using a note style. [CSL user documentation]: https://citationstyles.org/authors/ [CSL]: https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html |