From 7efb71f4f6feae5c57e685b588e725b1ab27c4b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 10:43:53 -0700 Subject: Revisions to citation syntax description update. --- MANUAL.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'MANUAL.txt') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3